I live in a major U.S. city at the bottom of the weekly church attendance count. I meet very few religious zealots, or even casually religious conservative people. My city is remarkably clean, safe and pro-social. I would say that the hot bed of radical leftism which I reside is got to be about the easiest city living I have seen. The general atheist population rarely discusses religion but seems generally unthreatened by people with non-fundamentalist religious beliefs.

Most pro-social organizations have a significantly higher number of religious members. These are groups that work with immigrants, the homeless or at risk youth. The gay pro-social organizations don't seem to have all that many religious members, but there are still some.

The religious community really came out for Occupy. They weren't a strong presence day to day, at least not from what people told me, but when it became obvious that the police were going to forcibly eject protesters they came out in force. As many people were getting abandoning camp to avoid arrest ministers from many different faith backgrounds moved in. From what i heard they weren't there to push any religious agenda so much as to try to lessen the savagery of the police. Most every one I talked to who spent some time with them that night were deeply impressed by their leadership and conduct.

Maybe communities mold their faith institutions as much as faith institutions mold communities. A great deal of the evil we seen in some religions could be an outgrowth of sick controlling impulses in our societies. A city with a large proportion of atheists also attracts people who are dissatisfied with the religious practices of the place they came from go to a liberal bastion to practice their own brand of more tolerant religion.