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Well, you gotta define atheism first. You can believe in God and you can be an atheist also -- if you construct your definitions correctly.
The Christian belief, at base, says that God is in each of us -- a small spark of divinity. Thus, as you relate to other people, so do you relate to God. If you acknowledge that spark in other people and treat it as divine, and so honor and respect and love and assist other people in their times of need, you are worshipping God. You are also _being_ God. Because if _everybody_ believes it, and everybody treats everbody else like a partial manifestation of God, then we have a world in which everybody loves and respects everyone, no one hurts everyone, everyone rushes to assist everyone else -- a veritable paradise. In a construct like this, a supernatural being per se is not required -- just the belief in one.
So in that sense, I believe in God -- as a construct, but as one that almost has a life of its own. Can I live with that "God?" Damn straight. If everybody talked the talk and walked the walk of their religions, a dozen benevolent gods would in effect walk the earth, and what a glorious place it would/will be.
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