^^^ That's why atheism is a religion. Atheists have faith in a whole bunch of things that they twist into what they want to hear and see, rather than what exists.
You are just wrong, atheism is not a religion and religious people tend to have faith in a whole bunch of things that they twist into what they want to hear and see, rather than what exists.
Without getting into as big discussion of what atheism entails, generally atheism involves belief that there is no God. In general, atheists will state right off the top that God doesn't exist.
But all atheists know that they really don't know that God doesn't exist. How is that? They know it because they know that they haven't checked every place in the universe to see if God isn't there. And they know it because they know that they are acting as god when they say that God doesn't exist while at the same time knowing that they know that He might exist.