As you said, these organizations aren't too friendly to atheists, and non-atheists are likely to be members of some church, so of course they're going to be bus

As you said, these organizations aren't too friendly to atheists, and non-atheists are likely to be members of some church, so of course they're going to be busy with that, as you yourself experienced. I guess people in the past had more free time to spend on non-work activities like this.