Why Atheists don't believe

That's hear-say anedoctal evidence. Doesn't count for much

Some people might think you're still kidding yourself. How would they know otherwise?

Fair enouth. But would you then curse that folk and thousands of generations after them if they did not obey you? Eventhough they had no knowlege of good and evil at the time of transgretion? The size of a punishment must match the size of the transgretion. I think that selfish little god of yours is just throughing a tantrum for not having things his own way

My point, exactly. Eventhough your account of how you became religious was very touching (I really mean it), your personal epiphany (I'm almost sure that's not the correct speling) cannot be transfered to other people. You're basically saying that you feel in your heart that there is a true god. To answer the OP question, atheists do not feel that in their heart. Point taken. I had noticed that from your previous posts too. You come across as one of the more openminded of the posters in the "Faith and belief" side of the coin in this forum.
Unlike, for instance, Faith that stated recently in another thread that people die of AIDS as punishment from god for their sins (what a load os crap...)

That does not address the fact that Adam and Eve had no knowlege of good and evil at the time of the transgression.Sure it was a bad choice. But how were they supposed to know that? They had no knowlege of good and evil. They couldn't tell.So lets see. God puts them in the edem. For balance puts a snake with them. puts a tree smack in the center of the edem for temptation. and give them no skill to tell good from evil. To top it off, the fruit of the tree gives them the knowlege that they were lacking, so they will realize the mistake they've made, but too late. Finally god curses Adam and eve, and thousands of innocent generations after them for doing something at a time when they have no way to know any better than that. That's one mean god you've got here I have to say.This jewis mithology will only make sense in the context of a parable, (or a fable). To try to interpret it literally is a logical that end, I'm afraid.

Lame excuse not to answer.

Loving your own mother is a statement about one's mind internal state. it needs no outside empirical evidence. God's existance is a statement about the nature of the world outside of the mind. It requires empirical evidence.If, for instance, you say that you know in your heart that god exists, this is only a statement of the internal state of your heart(Mind), and needs no empirical evidence. That unfortunately does not translate into god having to exist out-there in the real world. The crux of the difference is that nobody (that I know of) expects love to one's mother to exist out-there outside of that one's mind.

It appears that your standards to decide wheater you actually know something is subpar compared to the standards of some of the other posters to this forum