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Full disclosure: I was raised a Christian, and was actually going to seminary and to become a pastor until one day I woke up and there was nothing there. I've been an atheist since I was 17. For the annoying part, I'd say I'm a a neuroexistentialist and an absurdist.
God is real, and is an untouchable thing that people have made and seek because we are either consciously or subconsciously aware that we are specks. God is the void, God is at the heart of war, and yet God is also peace. "God is my co-pilot" bumper stickers are oddly accurate, because it really depends on the driver.
I saw God a few weeks ago. While walking to the store there was a woman coming towards me on the sidewalk, and a massive puddle between us. She wasn't on her phone, she was distracted by herself, lost in thought. It was so obvious that she was about to step right in this ankle-deep dent of wet and she did, with a splash. She laughed with no shame or frustration or break in stride. That's God. There was some peace that I saw in that, and it's a peace I want.