No not really. God is equivalent to deity. A deity is a postulated supernatural immortal being, who is thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, worshiped by believers. A tree in a clearing is a God when it is worshiped by believers. There is no difference between your belief in your God and their belief in their God. If you woke up after death and found yourself facing a giant, omniscient, omnipotent, etc Oak what would you do? If this question sounds absurd to you, your assumptions are as absurd to me. If you don’t think the omniscient, omnipotent, etc Oak is absurd than you have some evolving to do.

“Might be a bit beyond you though.”

Tell me Donna is the absurdity of calling yourself a Atheist because you are angry at God beyond you?

If I live my life believing there is a God and it turns out there is not – so what? I’ll never know. If you live your life believing He doesn’t exist and it turns out He does – you’ll find out about it.

So believe what you want.

Nah, just a paradox. C.S. Lewis, Oxford don and the author of the Narnia Chronicles – wrote a rather famous book about his conversion. Might be a bit beyond you though.

Just had a closer look at your known ex-atheists list – come on, why do you guys always have to stretch the truth?

CS Lewis? “Raised in a church-going family in the Church of Ireland, Lewis became an atheist at the age of 15, though he later paradoxically described his young self as being “very angry with God for not existing”. At the age of 29 he considered himself a theist and was eventually converted at the age of 33.” – so he was an Atheist when he was angry with God? – that’s just silly.

“Gee, sorry, Cristina for mixing you up with your fellow suicide fan and for adding the extra “h.” Yes, it should be obvious there’s no “Christ” in you.”

Do you mean that “Madonna”–you know the one–channels Virgin Mary, and you, with your abbreviated name, should be deprived of access to such holiness? How can you sleep at night?

Oh well, I guess the US Census is ill informed.

change in % of total adults 1990-2008
Christian Total -10.2%
None/No religion, total 6.8%

And as long as we are exchanging links have a look at this one http://tinyurl.com/38t96r

A list of well known ex-atheists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_atheists_and_agnostics

And two conversion stories by bloggers who were once atheists and were raised in no religion:

http://www.conversiondiary.com/2006/12/on-having-proof.html

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2004/0410dr.asp

So, you see, there’s hope for you yet, Cichwocha!