The real question, for me anyway, is not whether someone believes in any organized religion, holy book, or set of religious rules that got foisted on them by their society, family, etc...but rather whether they believe that life has some kind of greater moral/spiritual purpose behind it than just merely to survive (temporarily) and accumulate possessions and enjoy various forms of ego gratication (such as "success", popularity, fame, etc...).

Does life have a greater purpose behind it? I think so. I don't see that there has to be a human-like "God" for that to be so either...although the idea of such a "God" seems to help some people to grasp the notion of a higher purpose in life. Buddhists and Taoist see it in less personalized terms than that.

People really ought to read about all the major religions, if they can, before forming hasty assumptions about the general subject.

It can be argued that religion has done tremendous good in the world too, if one wants to argue from that angle.

The question is, do they? Obviously not, in many cases. If hating organized religion is important to you, then you will just focus on negatives most of the time, because attacking something you hate makes you feel good. ;-) (very briefly) It's a rush, isn't it?

We could just as well be having the same sort of debate about politics or modern industry. People see what they wish to see, based on their established emotional prejudices about such things.