No one indulges in Magical Non-think more than Atheists. Their belief in a magical, self-created universe is the best thing in that line.
Everyone knows that God exists - it's just that some people pretend otherwise.
God isn't a fantastical idea; but a simple and logical one.
Magical pixies are fantastical and silly.
Whether God is silly - well, you'll be able to discuss that when you meet Him.
I'm a Catholic DESPITE a Catholic upbringing, not because of it.
As your parents and community brought you up...
God is the Uncreated - the first cause, the starting point of everything.
There necessarily IS one !
If not God, then who or what ?
But - with WMD's and climate change - we're so much wiser and CLEVERER than those benighted religious people of the past !
God is the sole source of the human mind, thus of knowledge.
God is the overall picture, the inventor of the human mind, thus of science.
Religion begins as the hope that there is hope, not as an intended explanation of the universe.
Which is God, not religion.
To be an atheist in one's head (mind) isn't damnable - because an atheist of that sort may hold and serve an ideal of Goodness that is, in fact, God.
But someone who is an atheist in his or her heart, is evil, and thus has problems.
Mythology ? No - ancient oral tradition and ancient texts.
What makes you think they are false ?
You are ready to believe in the annals written by classical historians - what makes you believe that the ancient Christian texts and oral traditions are any less reliable ?
Unless, of course, you...