So much of what people call atheism is not so much the negation of God as the deification of the ego. All atheists believe in God, but the god is themselves.
God sets many angels in our paths but often we know them not; in fact we may go through life never knowing that they were agents or messengers of God to lead us in to virtue or to deter us from vice. But they symbolize that constant and benign intervention of God in human history, which stops us on the path to destruction or leads us to success or happiness.
