If I must be labeled first, than I guess I am agnostic, though my beliefs go beyond any one religion. I see a large trend here. There's a lot of questioning of religion and faith by way of scientific evaluation. How can an atheist really make an earth-based scientific claim about something that is incomprehensible? That can go for faith-goers as well, but they're not looking for proof obviously. If there is a creator, most of this debate is useless because none of what has been said can pertain to a non-worldly entity.
What I have read in this thread is the typical black versus white arguments of how "what you can't see, can't exist" or "my faith is my proof". This argument goes way beyond what we have come to know on this earth. Any rationale person can't deny a possibility in something, aka agnosticism.
As to the original disaster, errr, I mean Thorne; you now call yourself an atheist because things in life haven't gone your way. I think you need to step back and ask yourself about the conflicts in your life instead of blaming them on a religion. Most of the religious folk I have met did not look for answers or signs from their God but rather tried to follow a few guidelines to better themselves. It seems to me that you were looking in to Christianity in the wrong light, or any religion in that manner. I think most of the hatred thrown at religion is stemmed from something more personal within that person.