Religion, an atheists point of veiw

People who believe in god are wasting their time; there is no proof for his existence.
As an Atheist I totally agree with this statement, although 80% of the world’s population must disagree. I suppose although there is no hard evidence there are many holy books and scriptures that some would use as evidence for god existing. All could have been made up by anyone with a half decent imagination and a few natural phenomena or could have been made up as a means of making money. Also the diversity of the descriptions of god differs wildly. Who know maybe god is like god in disc world where he appears as you would expect him to and when you die you go where ever you believe you should but there is no proof.
Although I disagree with god existing I agree with his followers moral values, a world without values is a world I chaos. Maybe humans need a higher power to bring them together, if not god it’s the king or shaman. Even though there is no evidence belief is a powerful thing, many have died for their god, and killed. The power of belief is a two edged sword, people will die for good religious causes but would suicide bombers really set off if they didn’t believe they were doing it for god.
What I have conceded in the previous paragraph is only one aspect of religion and to and extent ‘god’. No one could possibly calculate how much money all the various religious institutions have took in over thousands of years, you only have to look at the grander of cathedrals and temples to glimpse at it. The thought of having to pay to be a good person and go to heaven is monstrous, but that was in the middle ages you cry. But consider a poor Hindu family in India, who instead of feeding themselves the offer it to the gods to be a good person.
Some money that you pay to the biblical institutions goes to good causes but most goes to the upkeep of churches and the paying of clergy.
Praying for some thing to happen is a total waste of time, say when in church you prey to those who had people taken away from them in 9/11, donate the money you would of given to the church to one of the family’s who have been devastated by the attack, instead of preying do some thing, don’t offer to the gods give to the people and defiantly don’t waste weeks of your life having someone preach to you how to live your life.