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It's easy, I think, to fall in an atheist sort of attitude when you begin to question religion, because the obvious answer to "Is there a God" is yes or no, and if you have issues with Roman Catholicism than you're going to lean towards no. The problem here is that no matter what you do as an atheist or an agnostic, you don't have the sort of...hmm...cushion to fall back on as with any religion you could belong to. It's my sad conclusion thus far that really no religion has gotten the answer right so far, but some of them have their hearts in the right place (I'm working with Lutheranism now, and from day 1 I've had questions). Despite my apprehensions with most religions, I've come to realize that they are a great way to connect yourself to SOMETHING, something that you can't define and don't really need to. I would say that a good way to see this...undefined energy, you should check out a Russian orthodox church service, because you'll be hard-pressed to say there isn't something out there that causes a room full of people to just cry out and sing from the depths of their souls, and it may not be what we consider God, but it's something.
For that matter, look at the music of Bach, or Handel's Messiah (Corny, but he wrote it in 2 weeks with almost no sleeping or eating) and consider the purity of intention they had in writing for the church. Bach wrote a cantata for every single Sunday of the year, one for each service. In the same vein, Ravi Shankar did the same basic thing with Hindu music..he studied 16 hours a day for 8 years to learn virtually every church song hinduism has. This is all just my opinion, and being a musician, this is the way I find proof (or evidence) for what I feel. You'll see for yourself eventually.
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