How not to believe in God? By confusing the Mystery with our all-too-human attempts to explain it. By confusing the finger that points at the Moon with the Moon itself. And by confusing the reasons why we believe with the content of our belief systems -- by thinking that it was ever about "belief" in the first place.
He makes a sort of rambling argument, but it boils down to this ... atheists attack humanity's relationship to God (i.e. religion) and confuse it with God. Much of Michaelson's column discusses why we have a need for religion and how easy it is to attack religion, but it comes down to my general belief: God doesn't need us, and the more we use God to make ourselves feel special, the more we take ourselves out of harmony with his creation.
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