Mr dev, while i agree with most of what you belive and what you say (form lurker here) i think you are contradicting yourself. A true atheist is saying that god dosent exist because there is no reason or fact to support God. Faith is needed to believe in God, but also needed to not believe something as well. It takes faith to say God exists as well as God dosent exist. And that there is a chance one or even both sides are wrong. All of that takes faith. By 'your' definition of faith, "It's a way of justifying an irrational form of reasoning by wrapping it in a pretty package labeled "faith". But when you whipe away the euphamism, it really just means "if you believe hard enough, that will make it true"."
it takes faith either way you look at it