When I was seven years old the nun teaching my Catechism class told us that Mary immaculately conceived Jesus. My mother immediately disabused me of this idea stating unequivocally that Mary was just another fourteen-year-old who got pregnant arguably and ironically planting the seed for this book. The theist belief that God exists as a conscious entity in some form other than that of matter or energy denies by definition the actual existence of God. Atheism denies the belief in God existing as