Quotes from an article entitled: "The New Atheism: No Heaven. No Hell. Just Science." in Wired magazine for November 2006.

"Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists," he says. "Not a single member of either house of Congress admits to being atheist. It just doesn't add up. Either they're stupid, or they're lying. And have they got a motive for lying? Of course they've got a motive! Everybody knows that an atheist can't get elected." - Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion."

"Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you," he writes, addressing his imaginary opponent, "dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well - by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God." - Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason."

The Catholic church's prohibition of condoms allows the spread of AIDS to grow ever-increasing.

So, there's me, a person of reasonably high intelligence (138 last time I was tested...) who is struggling with her belief in God. And then I read this article and find out that close to 30 million people in the United States don't believe in God.

I thought that last night I had things figured out. That I knew there was a God because I got some sort of sense of him while in the prayer room. That among all of those people altogether I could almost feel God's presence. I thought I had decided to believe again.

And then I read this article and don't know anymore. That makes me so very sad. How can one not know about believing in God? But... I'm lost. And the more I read about atheism the more I'm coming to realize that it makes sense.

So, what do I do? If I can't get some sort of a connection with God is that to mean that God isn't real?

I can't do this...