I ignore most of your posts but but I'll bite on this one.
I am not sure what poll you took and how the questions were addressed You do have a poll to verify that claim right?) but I can assure that this is one atheist who has not asked your god or anyone else's for anything. When my mother was dying of amyloidosis 4 years ago I did not pray/ask/talk to god. I accepted the frailty of the human body and sought to make her as comfortable as possible.
When my father and mother were in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, my father nor my mother prayed to god for their life. My father told me on several occasions that if the camps and his experience proved anything to him, it was that there is no god and that the cruelty of man knows no bounds. My mother, grandmother and aunt (all of whom were in the camps as well) agreed with him.
Secondly, just because I say 'god damn it' or 'Jesus Christ' in a fit of frustration or anger does not mean that I believe in it. In times of desperation, people will turn to things that they normally would not. That does not equate belief.
Thirdly. I used to put a tooth under my pillow and look for Easter eggs with my friends. I grew up and learned that there was no bunny. No tooth fairy, no Santa or Hanuka Harry. Zeus and Apollo were also fiction. I believe that god falls into that category as well. You do not. I honestly do not care what you or anyone else believe to be true so long as you keep it private and out of the public domain to which I pay taxes as well. Why you are so concerned as to what we atheists believe and are so dead set determined to prove that we "believe" as well is beyond me.
Fourth. Do you think there are any religious people who in times of desperation turn away from god? Does that make them an atheist in the same way that an atheist who turns to god in a moment of weakness becomes religious? Or is that just a one way street for you?
