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I have research degrees in both anthropology and theology. Also I worked for a while in a prison as a manager of the World Faiths department, overseeing the work of Imams, Pastors, Fathers, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist ministers. So, OK, I come at this from a particular point of view.WARNING: Going to church may damage your Christianity
I once spent a week in a Buddhist monastery trying to learn meditation. I didn't work well for me, but what the Buddhist Monk and I agreed on was that pilgrims coming to the temple with all the pressure to give gold leaf to put on the Buddha was just as crippling for spirituality as Christians having to raise money to repair the Church roof.
There is research about levels of christian maturity I worked on years ago, which looks at the factors which make christians grow in their christianity. Going to Eucharist every week is good because it helps christians to grow to level 3 quickly. The problem is, repeated exposure keeps christians there, they do not readily move through to level 5 in which they have the resources to make the whole of their lives christian. If you find this difficult to believe, reflect on the observation that established churches are rarely christian employers in treating their employees christianly.
I don't go to Eucharist every week. I have been enough already.
Preaching is not so good for your christianity or islam either. Congregations don't notice when their pastor or imam goes beyond what the faith is actually about and can slide into various fundamentalisms. At best congregations absorb the benign but limited world view of their minister. Methodists and others with rotating preachers have an advantage of learning to evaluate their preachers.
Yes, I am Christian, and my faith informs how I do things.
And the headline grabbing quote above says, may. A tendency, not an inevitability