Well, once I've decided that there's probably no God there's not a lot of sense In clinging on to all the ceremony and theology (though you won't keep me out of cathedrals). I'm not just ditching a particular concept of God, remember, because I haven't got one. I'm just looking at other people's really, clearly a hazardous pursuit. I'm in a constantly-ducked state here.   

Right, God-as-magician may appear to be trivialising a certain concept of creation. But you either believe that God created everything or you don't, surely? If so, didn't he do it from nothing? Against the laws of nature, etc., utterly counterintuitive? Gotta be some kind of magic in some sense, hasn't it? No Aunt Sally intended, just an invitation to clear this up. Did he or didn't he? And if he didn't, what did, and what is the point of him?