Originally Posted by
gneiss 
AA is a religious program but it is not in itself a religion.
That's the way I see it too. Pepsi is a cola, but not all colas are Pepsi.
To me though, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Pagans, Wiccans, Native American religions, those who believe in Norse or Greek mythology, atheists, etc. all have a similar issue: they believe something of which they have no direct evidence (they may have had an experience that is good enough for them to believe, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Not all atheists. You can be an atheist simply by lacking a belief in god. In that sense, agnostics are atheistic as well.