Religion prevents people to commit crimes

Hi, everyone. Religion is so much popular debate topic all the time. The faith in some higher cause is very interesting phenomenon of humankind so it’s tempting to come back to the question again and again :)I’m an atheist (agnostic probably more precise). Like almost everything in the world have good effects and bad effects at the same time, so is the religion IMO. Although some time ago I was quite radical atheist mocking at pseudo-logical arguments of believers, now I’m trying to understand the bigger picture and examine the positive effects of believing in God on society in general. Because of this, I’m not that radical now and I’m willing to listen to the both sides’ arguments carefully. So today I want to discuss one of those “good effects” that are on my mind for some time now with one of you. My proposition goes like this:Religion prevents people to commit crimes. Now I’ll try to explain, what I mean. I will divide people into different categories:(1) Non-believers with strong ethics. They have a sense of what’s good and what’s bad. They seek to be socially responsible (and they succeed). (2) Non-believers with weak ethics. Being peaceful and trying to make as much good as possible and as little damage as possible is not at all their primary goal in life. They care about their wellbeing and they don’t mind to hurt the others. They are not afraid of God’s punishment so this makes them be more prone to crimes compared to the believers. (3) Believers with strong ethics. They have a sense of what’s good and what’s bad. They seek to be socially responsible (and they succeed). Moreover being religious makes them to be even more social responsible, because they want to be good in the eyes of God. (4) Believers with weak ethics. Just like (2), somehow they don’t feel inside the strong wish to contribute to the peace and friendliness of the world. They care about their wellbeing and they don’t mind to hurt the others. Even though they believe in God, somehow they don’t pay too much attention to that part of “do not kill”, “do not rob”, “love everyone”. (5) Believers with weak ethics. Just like (4), except this time they act like (3) and the main reason for that - they seek not to violate God’s laws, even though they would like in their heart. I want to discuss exactly this 5th category. Remembering my above proposition, it is this 5th group that I have in mind. Here goes my second related proposition:Even though believing in God isn’t rational and there are no proofs of God existence, religion makes huge impact on making part of the believers to behave in a right way. This is why loud atheists should shut up :)Definitions:Believers - Christians of nowadays (to prevent talking about crusades and other nasty things of the past). Crimes - hurting people, robbery, etc. Ethics - natural sense of what is good and what is bad. The source of this attitude is not a religion, but merely innate humanity and empathy. Since I wrote quite a lot of letters in the opening, my opponent can start arguing right away. Burden of proof - shared. My oponent should argue that, e. g. :- Religion do not prevent people to making crimes. - If something prevents people to make crimes, this is not religion. - Even if the religion prevents the crimes, the impact of that in regards to ammount of crimes in the world is not worth our attention.