The God Delusion

I've Been reading the book "The God Delusion," by Richard Dawkins. As the title suggests Dawkins is an atheist and believes that there no evidence that a being such as God exists. I am only a couple of chapters into it and it is a very interesting read. I hope to blog some more about this in the future, but for now I want to focus on a quote that appears under the cover of the book. Dawkins writes, "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
When I first read this quote I chuckled to myself and enjoyed the wittiness of such a statement. It got me thinking though. What makes the God that I believe in any different than all of the gods throughout history that I reject. I by no means intend to find an end to this discussion, but I hope to start a conversation that perhaps many of us can dialogue together.
For me I cannot deny that there is something beyond myself and to understand what that force out there I put my trust in the writings that derive from the nation of Israel and the early followers of Jesus that we call the Bible. (I know this is no proof to someone who doesn't believe, but at this point I am simply trying to perhaps show why I believe in God. I'm not necessarily trying to write out a proof of any sort.)
For someone like Dawkins there is no room for faith. Everything he believes has to be able to be scientifically tested. For me though, I simply cannot accept that in life we can boil everything down to scientific proofs. From all of my experiences life spins in such ways that it is often hard to understand. There are things in this world that I will never understand and I am okay with that. In life I believe a certain amount of faith is needed and I place my faith in the God of the Bible. Do I have all of the answers, by no means.
This God, though is a God of love, mercy, compassion, and grace. These things are so needed in my life because I am so well aware of how pathetic of a person I am. I screw-up all the time and I am thankful for a God who loves me with all of my imperfections. This is also a God who does not sit in Heaven but chose to come to earth and is active in our lives not to control our lives, but to guide and give us strength.
These are some of the things that I think set this God apart from any other god in History and even sets this God apart from any other deity in the other religions that exist today.