Do you have to believe in God

At the end of this thread [link= http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=342547&mpage=1&key=&#343785 ]http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=342547&mpage=1&key=&#343785[/link]I asked a quetion to Matt. Thought I would bring it over here as I have more to ask.

Whilst in Cyrpus recently I walked into a shop, predominently clothes but then noticed angels etc. Got chatting to the owner and was there for about an hour and a half chatting. She had a problemn with the word God and thought the word was Dog backwards yet she was a Reiki healer.

Over the last 9 years, when I first started on this journey I suppose and backed off many times, I seem to meet a lot of people by chance. On speaking to a friend studying psychology she said that 'those type of people are always looking for something'.

a) Have I become one of 'those' kind of people? Not sure that at 55 I can be classed as always looking if I have just started.

b) Speaking to who could be my Reiki Master she was brought up a Catholic and had a problem saying the word 'God' even for a long time until she read A Conversation with God. I had this book in my hands at one time and had a problem getting past the title.

c) I did read The Journey and knew before he climbed the stairs of the last house who he was going to see - and can identify with that.

Without this turning into a debate on whether there is a God or not I would just like to know how others cope if you are an athiest or even agnostic.