I am an atheist also. Am I right? I have no clue, I just see a lot of damage done with a lot of large organized religions through the ages. I have beliefs, but not Biblical.
I am interested how just about every group of people develop some sort of belief system. It is also amazing the complexity of some of the various religious stories, be them Christian, Muslim, Eastern etc.
We all seem to have a need to develop some sort of belief system in order to help manage our societies, and to try and keep these groups civil.
It seems like a lot of the religions all have this sort of "BigBrother" that watches our steps and mis-steps and monitor or deeds and stores them on a big cosmic hard drive - so when we pass-on, we have to sit down and get a "personal inventory" review to determine whether we take the up elevator or the down elevator.
Heck we were even told Santa Claus kept an eye on us so we had to be good if we wanted gifts!
Even the most primitive tribes have these "system" of belief and an icon or Priest they must serve. Dylan wrote a song called "Ya Gotta Serve Someone" and rattled off numerous and the bottom line is, there is just something in our wiring that we need to plug into.

The other equally interesting thing to me, is how devout and for the lack of a better term -- how some religions, take on the form of Mind Control, where followers seem to shut down certain behavioral and reasoning faculties, in the name of "believing".
Snake handling, terrorism, commit suicide (Jim Jones and that other group a few years ago) drinking poison, killing those who they deem the bad guys, talking in tongues, and giving money to these southern ministers with the big-hair, and creating "holy lands" or territories.

The Same goes for politics, as was evidenced here where you had a clear division of beliefs and ideologies with each side feeling they were the better of the two. I was reflecting on that today, and how people can take leave of the senses, and whipped into a passion.

I know it is cliche' as heck, but it's sort of like we all have to have SOMETHING to believe in, as a crutch or means of adding sense to our lives, and when you boil down the majority of the religions out there, they all pretty much (for the most part) are structured to encourage doing the right thing, moderation, decency, control of greed, thankfulness, humility, and all that junk.

There are a lot of very scary religious beliefs out there as well, and it never ceases to amaze me how people can get sucked into some of these groups.

Even AA suggests there is a "Higher Power" (they try to avoid the GOD word" so as not to freak out atheists.

When politicians bring their strong religious beliefs into the fold, then for every action good or bad, they can write that off to God or Allah, as if to justify their mortal actions -- by putting an all-mighty immortal spin on things and that is when it can get a little scary.