YES!
For example, the ritual of the "altar call," and the ease with which a trained stage hypnotist (excuse me, "crusade 'evangelist'") can mass-produce altered states of consciousness -- at least, temporarily. The one "crusade 'evangelist'" with sufficient integrity to do the math discovered that 96% of his "conversions" were spurious. Only 4% of Billy Graham's "converts" ever got around to living as visible Christians.
People will scream if you touch their sacred traditions -- even rituals with a 96% failure rate, rites that harden people against God, and sow a deep bitterness into the culture. Dupes who realize that they were manipulated into a meaningless humiliation (" every head bowed, every eye closed ... come forward and make my numbers look good ... ") resent having been played for fools.
The chickens have come home to roost in Lakeland. Our willingness to tolerate manipulative techniques, for more than 150 years, have heaped reproach upon the name of our Savior, and His gospel.
Excellent observations...