We are ALL religious on something, and thats a fact. The professed 'Atheist' is religious toward his beliefs that there is no Creator for creation / the car owner is religious about changing his oil every 3000 miles / and I religiously go to Starbucks every morning for my caffiene shot to start my day. But in the divine sense... genuine Christians really arent 'religious' in the sense that all they do is practice religious acts, piety, perform traditions, etc... but they have a daily RELATIONSHIP with someone who is alive both physically in a location called Heaven and in their Souls ; it is a relationship just as you would have with a very very close loving Family Member -- no one would dare call that type of relationship 'a religious encounter' ..lol...
To your last point, yes, Christians often take a proactive stand for others who have a different view of God or no view of God at all , based on standards of morality, ethics, and the fact that they have intrinsic worth and dignity from being made in the very image of their Creator...even if they dont yet know their Creator on a personal intimate level. If i see a person getting ridiculed to no end and watching the pain come to their face...I dont first ask : ' Hey, what is your Faith persuasion ?' or ' Hey, what is your view on a personal theistic Creator existing ?' ... instead, we should stand up for them because it is objectively correct to do so. And this is daily applied to such causes as peaceful abortion demonstrations , standing up for the rights of Others, intervening in a domestic situation where we are watching a wife get pummeled to near death , or, trying to help an atheist woman who just got her handbag snatched .
What you will find under closer examination, is that Christians..that is the genuine type... WILL go the extra mile because their lives have been drastically changed by the love of Christ , and that love gets transferred outwardly to Others , freely and willingly .
Thanks for asking. And, i hope you will become a Seeker/Skeptic where Christianity is concerned and examine it with an open mind, and objectively. If you do, and if you are willing to actually go where the evidence is leading...then God promises he will reveal more of himself to you. Thats what hes done already to billions upon billions of Evangelical Christians thru the ages. But the choice is yours. If you are willing, this is the best book i can highly recommend for where you are right now in your life :
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Have-Eno...rds=i+dont+have+enough+faith+to+be+an+atheist
Regards.