The Leverage of Lucidity

You see, but there's also this preconception about religion, about religions, this misconception is that religion & science are so incredibly contrary to each other, that religion breaks down a man's mind and lessens his ability to think logically.

Your last sentence, "the embrace of clear transmission of ideas", this transmission is not so clear when one or another is biased against some religion.

There are an abundance of illogical religious-y pious people who claim to hold some opinion and knowledge beyond that of others but hold none, there are a lot of those.
There are a lot of people who don't even know their doctrine, what they believe in, why they believe in it, aside from that they are "from" whatever religion.
There are atheists who claim all religion is evil, stupid, yet are themselves evil and stupid, or don't even have a real basis for either of the words. There are a lot of atheists who speak against religion and people who hold to them, but yet, have little to believe in themselves.

There are just a lot of stupid people in general.
But most importantly, even if the stupid pious types are the only people you've been exposed to, you shouldn't be quick to generalize all religion, that's just not logic, or science, it's fallacy, it's erred thinking, it's turning from one radical to another, there's a way to see things from both perspectives without forfeiting reason.

Religions are many other anthropological jank, governments, money, technology, weapons; they can be made into something great! Something wonderful, something grandiose, or they can be repurposed, reintentioned into something nasty and poisonous to our lives and those around us. If anything religion is not the problem, but the people, or at least how they are carrying through with it.

Atheism is not equal to awareness, maybe for some people it can bring them closer to understanding the world and their place in it, but it can just as well blur the lines of opinion and lies, if not make them into something entirely different!

Instead! I would suggest looking at situations/ideas/circumstances/concepts from many perspectives! Objectively, so as to gain an understanding as close to the opinion as possible.