It's not usually religion in which one lacks belief, but gods and other theistic claims. One can be absent belief in the one and simultaneously against the other. Perhaps that's one of the sources of confusion we see around here?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'