Stringsinger,

You seem to be confusing a belief in a God, (which seems to be most of your first definition) with belonging to an organized religion, specifically Christian, and possibly RC?

The way you confuse the two makes some of your concluding points puzzling? Even if organized religion is evil, that does not necessarily make a belief in a God, outside a religion (a group which I fall in) evil? BTW, some of the bad stuff you raise with organized religion is the reason I do not associate with any).

I suspect that not believing in an organized religion, or Christianity, does not make one an Atheist?

To add to the complexity, I do not believe Buddhists believe in a god? Would that make them Atheists?