I grew up in a Baptist Church, went to Baptist schools. Dad was a Deacon and my Dad is a preacher in his retirement as a general contractor. The nastiest people I have ever met were "religious". That's the reason I am atheist.
I’m 62 years old, I’ve been saved for over 30 years, I’ve been in a Baptist Church environment the entire time, and the nastiest people I ever met were unsaved people who like to falsify claims against bible-believing Christians.
I used to say that, but I have met people who were WAY worse since! LOL I never had a good opinion of Baptists, mostly because I grew up in the South and was a Catholic - southern protestants are, or used to be, very anti-catholic.
None of this necessarily disproves my point, however: Perhaps you never knew a truly religious person of faith and everyone around you was just taking advantage of the social situation. That’s what it always seemed like to me! (I used to do fortunetelling over the phone, right? And some of the calls we would get from religious folks on Sunday or Monday morning were truly hair-raising!)