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That take assumes there's some sort of religious vacuum, that if they don't worship a god then those desires will go into worshiping other things. It's naive in assuming their lack of desire to worship someone or something is a lie. There are many who actually feel no need to worship anything powerful and even some of them assume the powerful are doing well enough to not need worshiped.

I don't think it does. I think it simply poses an analogy between religious activity and the other belief-driven activities that people constantly engage in, even when they are not actively attaching themself to a metaphysics and an afterlife.

I'm not religious but I am spiritual.

I thought you were going to say the Church of, capital s, Science.

Redefining terms doesn't change a metaphor to literal truth.