This problem of "watered-down" doctrine is not a new one facing Christianity. It is as old as mankind himself. It seems we (all of mankind) have accepted the statement that there is nothing absolute as being absolutely true, no matter how illogical. I belive that people accept it because it frees them from the possibility of being absolutely wrong. The trade-off (never being absolutely right) is an acceptable price to pay. Therefore, "christianity" and "God" and "church" become nothing more than words with whatever meaning the speaker wishes to ascribe to them. And, man being what he is, seems most adept at polluting them, rather than imbuing them with more substaintial meaning than they had when they were defined by the doctrine. IMHO
You are probably right.
Ps. What does IMHO mean? I have newer understood this constant use of initials to shorten everything in English, it renders many texts completely unreadable sometimes, when not even one referring is to what it actually means is in the text...