I think both the religious and atheists attempt to align with the universe and its principles based on their understanding, while involving a great spectrum of human assumptions.

For some that is God, for others it's simply reality.

The positive path is the message that truth and reality always wins. This in turn imposes a moral imperative to calibrate, error-correct and align with truth.

In short, this explains why confidence, i.e. faith, in the victory of truth over time is evolutionary important. A deep rejection of a 1984 society, or in the religious sense 'mark of the beast', is a pivotal battle line.