The reason one needs faith to believe in a god is that there's no evidence. That's what faith is.
I don't need faith to be an atheist, because it's not up to me to prove that there's no god. That's not how science works. Observation, hypothesis, experiment, theory. It made the computers we're using to argue with, the internet that is for porn, the [link|http://www.fonejacker.tv/|herd luckerderterv] in my living room, the car I drive around in, and, indeed, all the stuff that we use today. You are free to dismiss this as religion, but you'd be wrong.
It's great fun to speculate about what sort of god there is or might be, but the entire evidence for the existence of same can be found between these square brackets [], and in that light discussing whether god might be a bastard or a nice guy is like wondering whether the Millennium Falcon would beat the Enterprise in a space fight.
When the evidence for a god turns up, then that's a whole different barrel of lutefisk.
Many atheists simply deny the possibility of anything beyond what is known to science today and think themselves superior to others for that denial - and do not shrink from saying so. Those atheists are annoying.
Who denies the possibility of anything beyond what is known today? Not me, that's for sure. When ah were a lad, I would have been amazed by the herd luckerderterv and doovd in my living room, but I could have had its operation and construction explained to me in scientific terms, and not had to regard it as "magic".
One concept that seems to pervade theist thinking is that it's somehow up to the scientists to prove the non-existence of god.
It's not.