Re: KKK dipshit on gurney; I think it would be OK if they didn't try their hardest to save him.
I remember seeing it written that if there was no god, we would be our own god, and while that would be nice, it is unrealistic from my point of view.
I think the implication is that it takes a big ego to be one's onw god, but I would think that the difference is simple:
Deists believe that we were created in an image of a perfect being.
Atheists believe that we were spawned in a pool of sludge, and crawled out of it, as we evolved from stupid, violent biological blobs.
I think that the bigger ego is obvious.