I think none will pay attention on what I have to say, but here it goes:
I used to work as a coroner, two years. Two years seeing the most horrendous things, seeing how far human can go with insanity. I saw the true nature of the human being. In a country as violent as the one I live, children chopped in pieces is only a day-by-day routine that the news will not even cover anymore.
That was a time of reflection, a time to look inside and outside to question myself regarding God/Humans relation.
Atheism is one point of view so as faith. Religion is one way of trying to explain things, so as science.
I'm a graduated physicist, a man of science therefore, and I do believe in God. In fact, the other physicists and other science branches professionals I know, atheists are the minority, a very small minority I must add.
The problem is the association of God and religion. Religion and God are NOT the same thing. Believing in God does not require one to follow any religion. Religion and science are ways of trying to explain things humans are not natural to understand. On the other hand, having religion to explain these "mysteries" is not being an atheist.

I've been noticing from some time, that people in US tend to be very extremists. Don't get me wrong here, but I see that people in US are or pro or against, or black or white, or republican or democrats, evolved or obtuse. And this behavior, is mostly influenced, not a conclusion formed by themselves, but something they were being conditioned to. This is true also for the religion/science factor. They tend to believe that one is either religious or science believer. Why not a mixing of both?