People of faith being wimps and even more, thinking that being wimps is somehow serving God, is the reason we are where we are today. And that goes for people of any religion, the same moral absolutes are there, they are universal. [leaving aside Muslims, I am very intolerant of them.]
You can only read so many scriptures to an atheist. After awhile, you need to take “other action” (if you don’t take “other action”, you’ll end up where we are today.