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It’s not very Christian to insult people which you’re coming pretty close to doing.

Hitler, Churchill and Napoleon are dead human beings. It might be hard for them to drop by for coffee.

I think it’s fine to have faith and to believe, but as rational, intellectually honest people, we have to come to terms with the lack of evidence in a god. If you choose to believe anyway, good for you. Faith and prayer can have powerful positive effects on a person.

I look at the world and see a tremendous amount of suffering and horror mixed in with the beauty and goodness. I do not accept that a god would allow the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the tsumanis’ body count, etc. etc. unless he is either helpless, incompetent, depraved or non-existent. I’m opting for non-existent.

No insult intended! All I meant is that they, their spirits, are alive. I did not know any of them personally, all I know is what somebody else wrote about them, yet I believe they lived on this earth at some time. Hey, I even believe that Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and Tutankhamun are real, yet there's more proof of Jesus' life and claim to be God than there is of any of them! You believe in what someone writes about any of these people, why is it so difficult to believe what somebody writes about God?

I do not accept that a god would allow the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the tsumanis’ body count, etc. etc. unless he is either helpless, incompetent, depraved or non-existent.
At least I am humble enough to confess that I do not understand God. You do not understand Him, so you choose to deny His existence. Is that supposed to make any sense? Is that rational and intellectually honest? By that standard, do you "believe" in atoms? I must confess that I had an awful time with quantum mechanics, so maybe I shouldn't believe!

Now, if you ARE rational and intellectually honest, I will keep on praying for you. Seek the Lord and He will reveal Himself to you (just don't demand a visitation).