To me that’s simple: they’re sinners. The number of people for whom sunday services or even daily prayers are a kind of hypnotic or analgesic is ... huge.
My mother considered herself a devout Anglican. Read religious books, prayed, worked hard for her parish. And she was very firm that she expected worship to be soothing. Also, she was very much a Pelagian anclear that she thought Paul was wrong!
So I am not surprised by peolle who don’t even try to follow their denominations teaching, morals, or practices.
“To me that’s simple: they’re sinners. The number of people for whom sunday services or even daily prayers are a kind of hypnotic or analgesic is ... huge.”
Huge indeed! There are some “catholic” countries where half the members or more never darken the door of a church all year.