As a reformed "Dub" and devout atheist (wink) I felt I should chime in a bit. :)
Here's the big problem, as Richard Dawkins wrote in "The God Delusion" (Don't worry fellow ex-dubs and current ones, I'm not trying to promote atheistic teachings, just making a point)- ((quoting Sam Harris in The End of Faith))
We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or 'delusional'.... Clearly there is sanity in numbers. And yet, it is merely an accident of history(bolding added by me) that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. And so, while religious people are not generally mad, their core beliefs absolutely are.
Later, he brings up the point - Say for example there is a god. Wouldn't he have to be the Ultimate of Scientists, the Astrophysicist par excellence to bring into existence the universe and the microverse (relating to particles of atoms and quarks)? If that be the case, wouldn't a questioning, curious mind be welcomed at the gates of Heaven more readily than someone who believes dogma at face value? (Obviously he forgot to tell his Governing Body he likes questions. Probably because they AREN'T his means of communication.)
It makes no difference to me. I don't believe in a sky-fairy that once was wicked, jealous, blood-thirsty and vile and then turned into Jesus father, the benevolent Jehovah.