I object to your analogy! You may have the ability to destroy a ton of ants or watch them crawl around in their various ant escapades but you are not their god and they have never acknowledged you as such (I've been bitten loads of times conducting such experiments). You live longer and let's hope you're a tad bit more intelligent, but you did not create them, you can't know them on a personal level and you have no say in the state of their immortal soul... assuming they have one. Not saying that a god can't have a personality, but you're conclusion is based on a flawed premise and it is my great pleasure to point it out and laugh.
That really depends on how you define a god, now doesn't it? If you use the narrow, Christian/Judeo concept of what is God, then yes, you are correct. Laugh all you like, if you are being that uncreative. I never said that men were
their gods, only gods in their world. I'm sure ants have much more interesting things to worship, like pinapples, or possibly leaves.
If you are going to look at it from the ant's perspective, it becomes clearer. Omnipotent, able to wipe out their entire civilization in a way they can neither understand nor combat, we. are. gods. We have powers they cannot comprehend and know things that they will never and can never know. We live roughly four hundred times longer than your average ant and are able to create things far beyond their comprehension, things that, to an ant, would be considered alive.
Do you have to worship something for it to be a god? I would say no. I take it that you, frog, worship in some manner (I assume this from the manner of your response). You believe in a god of some sort. Does someone/something not believing in your god make him any less real? If the ants don't believe in him, but he still affects their world, does that make him not a god if he still has a god's power?
As to your premise that a god must have a say in the fate of one's soul, well, look at Greek mythos. Most of the gods had nothing to do with souls--that was Hades' department. They were still gods, however, far beyond what the mortals could ever aspire to. Even if the Greeks didn't beleive in their gods or aknowledge them, well, that never stopped the gods when they had smiting on their minds.
A summation: If you are defining a god narrowly, then yes, you are right and I am an idiot. Gosh darn it, I still haven't worked out how to put the little ant parts together and make them move, give them life. I am not their god. On the other hand, if you define a god as an omnipotent (compared to you), omnicient (compared to you), and immortal (compared to you) being that can create things you cannot even possibly understand, well then, yeah, the ants see you and most any other human who hasn't fallen down dead as gods. After we fall, then we are food, but until then, we rule their world unquestionably.