I think the issue you're facing in thinking that these aspects exist but are implicit is that you're looking at the world through religion-colored glasses, which distort the way you're viewing things.

I'll admit that in the absence of religion, some people pick up ideological causes and treat them as a religion. However, I'm interested in knowing what "rituals, origin stories, deities, saints, priesthood, blasphemy, vice & virtue" you think I have.