In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus

[Sheldon]

My statement has predictive power, and I'll gladly put money on it. You ask any number of participants if they agree with the positive set of adjectives or negative set of adjectives describing the God of the Bible, and whether they self-identify as atheist or theist, and you will get a significant correlation.

Your caricature straw man claims about atheists was demonstrably nonsense. However if you want us to create a poll to see how many atheists here disbelieve in any deity, because there is no objective evidence they exist, compared with your laughable bullshit about us having not had prayers answered, then go for it. Let me know how much money you owe us.

Or one could simply read the bible, and see unequivocally that the deity depicted is a capricious, petty vindictive, genocidally cruel mass murdering megalomaniac, largely indifferent to the suffering of its pets. 

Luckily there is not one shred of objective evidence any such deity exists, or is even possible. Which is the only reason I need to remain disbelieving. 

And as a bonus, do the same with Sheldon's claims, like whether they have an "ability to deny objective reality, no matter how well evidenced, if it contradicts their beliefs."

Anyone who believes the Genesis creation myth is literally true is doing this, for example by claiming that the earth existed before the sun, let alone with vegetation on it, or that the earth is a few thousand years old, is demonstrably and unequivocally denying objective reality. This has nothing to do with me, that's just projection on your part.