My observation is that religious people are less compromising, and I think it's a good thing. For example, take abortion. The atheist will be okay with it because not everyone wants to have children, while human life is sacred to the religious person and so there is no room for it. Another example is usury. There's a need for credit, and if there's an interest on it, atheists will go along. In the Muslim world, on the other hand, there's interest-free credit. Atheists tolerate homosexuality because there's no observable harm in it, and they go down the slippery slope so that children are now encouraged to undergo cosmetic surgery that affirms their view of gender, while the religious person will have none of that because they don't compromise on traditional views of gender and sexuality. They're uncompromising because they believe their values to have a divine source and therefore to be right exactly in the way in has been received and not open for debate. This is the confidence in their way of life that comes along with religion. The good intentions of the atheist (i.e. they want to be open and tolerant) are abused by the planning class so that society is in a constant state of modification and no roots are left intact; religion counteracts this. I'm astonished you're overlooking what is perhaps religion's greatest strength.