Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.

[Confused Ape]

Faeries do exist. Every god ever surmised exists.

False. You misconstrue conception with existence.

These things do exist as experiences produced by the brain. This is the transcript from the documentary God On The Brain. It's about neuroscientists investigating what happens in the brains of people who have religious experiences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/200...rans.shtml

My own brain produces odd experiences such as a vision of a shadowy female form rising from a lake. (Some people would interpret this kind of thing as seeing a water spirit) I met the Greek god Apollo in a dream - he was an awesomely powerful figure so if I wasn't an atheist I'd now be worshipping a brain produced image.

This is a very interesting video by a Neuroanatomist who had a stroke which kept switching off signals from the left hemisphere of her brain. She describes the experiences produced by the right hemisphere of her brain - being at one with the universe etc. The way she describes it suggests that this is what mystics call God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzE...31&index=4

If a religious person says that they've felt the presence of God it's very possible that their brain produced an experience which they interpreted as God.