Gregory's Server
By strict definition of the word worship, you are correct. I'm sort of taking the word more colloquially. If I say I worship my car, I don't necessarily think it's a deity, but something I have great affection for or honor for some characteristic. There is indeed a slippery slope here from the evil abrahamic religions through to the eastern religions. I will just leave this as there is nothing wrong with identifying nature as one with us and us with it. Calling it or any imaginary thing a deity or God is very dualistic and not something to be proud of.
@lednabm
If you dig into the etymological roots of “deity”, it looks like it can be traced back to the same word that got us “day”. In other words, our generic word for a god dates back to worshipping the sky as a god.
So, yes, the line between worshiping the sun as a concrete thing and as an anthropomorphized abstract is a blurry one.