Sounds like survivorship bias to me: what about the rest of the religious people who decided to stay in their houses because god? We won’t hear their testimony because they are dead.
I didn’t pay an awful lot of heed to religion when I was a kid (never my scene) but I was taught that this was exactly the way god didn’t work at all. This would be called vanity. You do the work of god because of love. God was supposed to make the world with all that love in it, your job was to do your part.
