I don't believe in god. I believe the concept is a psychological crutch.
There are still moments when I'd pray to god but it's not an acknowledgement that he exists. It's an acknowledgment that things are fucked beyond my fixing. It's a frenzied hope of desperation that if something, anything beyond me can unfuck it that I'm game.

The great thing about being an Atheist is that God becomes an idea, nothing more. Ideas are easy to use when needed and discard when not.