Evidence God Exists: Part II

[Thor]

I just didn't want there to be a God, and I would go out of my way to make science and other data fit my atheist beliefs,

I'm curious what "science and other data" you are referring to here. I don't know of anything that you have to "make fit" an atheist belief. It is the creationist crowd that twists things around to make evidence coincide with their beliefs (The Grand Canyon proves Noah's flood! Fossils of sea creatures found on mountains proves Noah's flood! Cave paintings prove man lived with dinosaurs! etc...)

and would ignore any rational points made by theists that pointed towards the existence of God.

Give me a rational point that "points toward the existence of God".

But this is before I realized that God is not as black and white, and simple as atheists paint him.
(This magical and supernatural being that created the world, kills children, and wants us to worship him.)

Well, according to your own book, doesn't this magical being kill children and demand that we worship him?

There's more to understanding our complex God,

A being that indiscriminately kills innocent people and demands worship... sounds like a psychopath to me.

and there's a purpose for everything.

Ah, yes... one of the favorite platitudes of the faithful. If this is true, please explain the "purpose" of Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Hurricane Katrina, the recent earthquake in Haiti, the 9/11 disaster and Paris Hilton.

I know a lot of atheists are atheists because they dislike the idea of there being a God.

Oh, what crappola! Someone is not an atheist because they "dislike the idea of there being a God". Someone is an atheist because they see no evidence of the existence of a god. Do you not believe in leprechauns because you dislike the idea that leprechauns exist? Or do you not believe in leprechauns because you don't see any evidence that they exist?

But after gaining more understanding, I now feel just the opposite. I not only believe in God, but I love the idea that he's around.

Some kids have invisible friends that they like having around. Doesn't make them any more real than your god.