Anecdotal. I'm a devout Christian and I got in trouble with my job in healthcare multiple times over my refusal to acquiesce to the garbage COVID lunacy (masks, distancing, vaccination, etc.). Took my kids to closed parks where people had literally been arrested for playing. Was the only one in Walmart or wherever without a mask on. My mother is a devout Christian and she confronted and still confronts (she's a little confrontational anyways, and maybe that's part of it) people who wear masks around in public. For just as many religious devotees that you noticed cowering, I can name one or several who stood up bravely.