Reading the introductory matter in a 1981 paperback, World Classics edition, from the Oxford University Press, I am put in mind that your true religious believer disbelieves in all Gods, gods, conceptions of God, and conceptions of gods, save his own.
It seems George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans, abandoned any style of orthodox Christianity in her early twenties for some form of Protestant religious liberalism.
She translated Strauss's Life of Jesus and Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity, and the partly biographical introduction says she remained deeply religious all her life, urging people to find consolation and guidance in The Imitation of Christ.
Your true atheist rejects all gods or Gods, disbelieving in them as according to some conceptions and rejecting other conceptions as ballocks.
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