All faiths were created out of our need to understand death, people are afraid of death so they want to know that when they die that there will be something else, not just lights out, shows over, which unfortunately is what happens.
As you can probably guess, yes I am an Atheist, I just see way too many things that show there was no God who snapped his fingers one day and said let there be man. We have the skeletal proof for evolution, look at Neanderthals, if there was no evolution then where did these guys come from, plus we have the skeletal remains of even lower forms of human life, also the Earth is about 4 billion years old, with man only being on it for the last hundred thousand years or so, so why was the Earth here for so long, with other life forms, like the dinosaurs, before we got here, and the universe itself is around 14 billion years old, so it's been around 10 billion years longer then the Earth has, so what was God just sitting around all those billions of years scratching his butt deciding on weather to create us or not? Believe me, I wish that there was more to life after death, I mean who wants to die and have that be just it, and thats the reason we created religions, to help us cope with that fact.
