Even Indiana Jones puts dirt on his bridges of faith before steppin' on 'em
Ah, yes. I remember that scene.
If God is all-powerful, why have am I an aetheist?
Perhaps because God granted you the ability to choose?
That's the religious explanation. It's better than the "it is not our place to question God's motives" one. The problem with religion's explanation of religion is that it makes revision virtually impossible. What religion (particularly Christianity, but probably also some others) has done is that it's closed every other option by stating that "God did it," and that either by saying in the Bible how it happened or by saying that "God works in mysterious ways," and some other BS explanations.
And if God doesn't have the power to convert non-believers like me, why should I worship him?
It wouldn't make sense to forcibly convert all non-believers. What's the point in being God to a race of robots?
Then why does he send non-believers to Hell? Or do you not believe non-believers go to Hell? If I am not mistaken, all people who do not lead a Christian life are, according to the Bible (or some other, more recent religious work (i.e. Dante's Inferno, which has worked its way into religion so well that some uneducated people do not know that the things originally stated in it are not a part of the Bible)), doomed to suffer in the pits of Hell?
And you should worship him because he is worthy of worship. Same reason you admire aldo's models; they're worthy of admiration.
Seems to me that God, if he is all powerful, has permitted some pretty evil things. Like the Holocaust. Even if he gave people free will, could he not have turned Hitler into a pillar of salt, or rained fire on him from the heavens, like God seemed to have a knack for in the Old Testament days?
And why did God make almost every bit of science done by anybody who hasn't specifically set out to prove the existence of God contradict his very existence?
I'm guessing you don't have much of a scientific background then. Nothing contradicts the existence of God. A particular event may have more than one explanation, one of which might be God, but that says nothing about which explanation is correct.
And it is logically impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God from within the confines of our universe, as God exists outside the universe.
Actually, I do have a scientific background. My father is a molecular physicist, and I get excellent grades in science (and the related subject of math).
Maybe you can't prove or disprove God, but there are things proven by science that directly contradict
the word of God. For example, the Big Bang theory: states that the universe was created approx. 15 billion years ago. Dinosaur skeletons: carbon date to 65 million years ago. Both of these occurred before the time that the Bible states the universe (or at least the earth, for the second example) was created. Evolution: goes against the creation theory as well, yet it has been observed (at least with bacteria and other such small organisms with short life-cycles).
Also, you said God exists outside the universe. Where in the Bible, or any previous holy books, does it say that? I'm pretty sure it says God created the earth, not, "the idea of God was the inspiration for the creation of the earth." If God is outside the universe, then he has no impact on our lives. If he can never prove his existence, or have any influence on the universe (except possibly as a creator, the force that started the Big Bang (even this has been brought under question now by people like Stephen Hawking)), there is no way that he should have any influence over us. Heck, anything outside of our light-cone shouldn't affect us.
If God exists, we certainly must have pissed him off a heck of a lot for him to cover up the signs of his existence so much.