The stereotypical God that a stereotypical atheist considers
   non-existent, I too consider non-existent.

   Am I an atheist? I don't believe so.
   Am I religious? I don't believe so.

   Now, here comes one of those "Say something nice, then add a
   "BUT"":

   I adore Stephen Hawking. Always have since A Brief History of
   Time (which my Library got a year AFTER I already wrote my
   brilliant 10 page high school paper on Black Holes, with ZERO
   input from Stephen Hawking. Brief History would have made it a
   LOT easier to write.

   So, I don't adore him for being entirely unhelpful with my high
   school paper. But otherwise, I like him and he's charming and
   interesting and quite clever.

   HOWEVER: When he went at length to explain "Why God need not
   exist", on the Science Channel... and I noticed more and more of
   my favorite Science personalities become atheism advocates [all
   using the same disturbingly consistent style] ... I was
   disappointed. Very much so.

   To me, he then just joined the ranks of Old Men utilizing their
   status in life to Pontificate about all sorts of stuff that
   really have nothing to do with their fields of study.

   And the God that he proposed need not exist? I don't know a damn
   person who believes in *that* God either.

   But I know a lot of people who fight it. Tilting at Windmills.