I feel a bit guilty for not being able to read this through properly. I'll do it when I have a chance.

Atheism is a huge family of faiths. My particular faith is called "apethiesm" which is a branch of atheism leaving it pretty much open. I don't call myself agnostic because they give credibility to today's religions. I don't. None of their supernatural theories have any evidence to back them up and their distribution on the planet seem to be pretty much random. These are the two main reasons I think they're all bogus. All the big ones are so old that people back then didn't have the tools to make a coherent case so it's not much we have to corroborate them. I think that all the ancient, (and even modern) theories of the nature of the supernatural is wrong, simply based on the fact that they have nothing to draw conclusions from. They have basically been guessing, which is nothing I will use as a basis for my faith.

The follow up question is off-course if science is better at explaining it. The answer is "no". The mathematicians Banach and Tarski found some pretty nasty holes in it.

If by supernatural we mean a force that is different than the forces we know of today I believe in the supernatural. If we call this force god I even believe in god.

To re-iterate. I don't have anything against religions. I think we need religions, (or similar constructs) to function as human beings. We need to be part of something greater to feel that we have a place in the world. I think that this need has caused us to draw unfounded conclusions. There's plenty of science that proves that atheists are more miserable than theists. They're doing something right.

I don't for a second doubt that there are people who speak to "god" and get meaningful answers. It doesn't prove that there exists god or anything supernatural, only that doing that is good for our mental well being. It proves that we don't need anybody else to feel love. And we all need love. Science can prove that humans need religion to be truly happy. At least it's a start.

I don't have problems with people saying that the idea of the Christian god is a novel one and keeping it as one of their possible theories. But as soon as an educated person says that they are convinced that it's the only one, then they've reduced themselves to the level below that which I'd thought possible for a thinking adult.