no
but you know who really piss me off, the religious people who can't fathom how someone could be a good person and not have a "higher power" in their life.
Speaking as a former atheist, atheism can be harnessed into a force for temporal good in the world when it's used to emphasize the common preciousness of all human life, being that this one life is all that any human being can ever hope to attain. This can create a strong sense of empathy and reciprocity for our fellow man.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the most common way atheism is used; I see far more people use it to essentially build themselves up as mini-deities writing their own morality while using other people, for which there is no eternal consequence other than the prospect of damnatio memoriae.
It seems very important that moral/"good" (at least in a relative sense) people believe in something greater than themselves which checks and constrains their personal/group hubris, whether or not that's a literal higher power. Atheists are no exception to this, and I'd argue they are especially vulnerable to choosing self-serving objects/systems which they effectively worship, and they are far more vulnerable to losing sight of (perhaps without even recognizing it) or compromising away from whatever higher purpose they place themselves under.
Obviously being a good person is not a condition to be an atheist, but I don't know if the typical atheist is any worse or better than the typical individual.
