Just out of curiosity, how many of you guys consider yourself to be an atheist (I use the term 'atheist' very loosely. It could just mean that you don't really consider yourself to be a practicing Hindu anymore and don't think you want/need to belong to any particular religion)?

On a similar note, I want to study what exactly we hindus believe. Which books would you guys recommend (it would be nice if they were online)? I, like most of you, was raised a Hindu and grew up watching Mahabharat, listening to Swosthani, going to temples, praying to god when I needed to pass exams and donating money and laddu at a temple after I got the US visa  but I never really took the time to understand what we Hindus believe in.