Do I need God?

If you ask some people about God they say He doesn't exist - atheists, others might say they are followers of 'God' - religious people, but what about the band of people in the middle? The people who say "I don't need God, I am a good person" - what are they called?
If you ever visit the BBC News web site, go to "Have your say" where the site invites opinions on various news events, for example "Is it OK for a school to ban religious jewellery?", or, "Should Gordon Brown resign?". Many of the opinions expressed (certainly the most recommended ones) are very right-wing but it is the content of some of them which proves the point that people do in fact need God.
On one of the debates, they were asking "How can we control the drug use problem". Most of the recommended answers simply said we should legalise drugs and then be able to control or tax them and then the price would fall and dealers wouldn't make much money any more. An understandable view-point. There are other people however who said that the people who take drugs or deal them should be dealt with consistently and severely so that most people will not risk it. An opposite and equally understandable opinion. So which is right? Of course the answer is that no-one actually knows except God but people (including Christians!) rarely articulate this key fact. People often cite examples in other countries or sometimes pseudo or partial evidence for their view and the strength with which the view is expressed can be incredible despite this underlying ignorance.
So what? If you think for a moment why these people have such strong views when they don't actually know the correct answer you can only come up with one reason: Ego/pride. The fact that I will pour my heart and soul out to argue something that I really have no definitive idea about rather than saying, "i don't really know", or, "I suspect this would happen" says much about me and most other people in the world to some degree or other. It says that I am very inadequate in the knowledge department and I need someone to tell me what to know.
When you look at Jesus' life and when people asked him a question, he NEVER said, "it is six of one and half a dozen of the other", there was no politik. Either he had an answer or the question wasn't relevant and might have been answered in a different way. We believe of course that his answers were from God so we can be sure that they were right. So to go back to my earlier statements, people DO need God because he is the only one who can a) tell you the correct answers to something or b) tell you that the question is irrelevant and requires no answer.
I sometimes wonder how many of the "Have your say"s Jesus would write in to and what He would say!!