Funny, that's exactly the same attitude I get from dimwitted think-they-know-it-all conservatives who say that Liberals are idiots for not agreeing with them! In fact, you are an idiot just for making such a moronic statement.

What it would take for me to believe in a god is all humanity waking up one morning and knowing instinctively and collectively which, if any, is the true religion, and the one true God. Naturally, this is something only a god could do, so it would be the best and most useful proof of God's, or Allah's, or possibly the Boogeyman's existence.

What it would take is the following miracle: I wake up one morning and all humanity renounces their many religions and gods and agrees on one and the same god. I don't care if it is an existing god, or if they make up a whole new one, or an amalgam of the old ones. And I mean they do it willingly, not at the point of a sword or gun. I think this is a miracle only a true god could pull off. I could believe in the existence of such a god

A common saying is that "there are no atheists in foxholes", meaning that all soldiers pray to survive battle. However, soldiers still do die, many in horrible, painful ways. If prayer did help, none of the soldiers would die, or "God" would prevent the battle altogether.

Yes, simply because if BP goes under, there will be no one for all the people who have been hurt by them to sue. Their pockets may be deep, but they're not bottomless. If they go bankrupt (it happened to Pan Am, it can happen to BP) the executives and shareholders will divvy up most of it, and the lawyers will go after the rest of it. The people who are hurting the most will get next to nothing.