An equally infantile and toxic cynical analogy: Your local gas station keeping filling its underground tanks to keep you coming back to purchase more of its gas.
Rather, it was never “fine to sin,” sin always being considered a betrayal of one’s Baptismal identity as a Christ-person.
Also, people ritualize their inner convictions, priorities, trusts, worldviews, personal philosophies, feelings, etc., all the time (rings, flowers, flags, parades, pledges of allegiance, donning vestment/clothing, bestow trinkets, etc.) Why do you separate out and pose ritual as a downer?
Ritual vs faith (or philosophy, for that matter) is an utterly false dichotomy conjured by the “enlightened” unto their own intellectualized self satisfaction.
Rather more to the truth of the matter, faithful early Christians spoke of their faith in the terms of the philosophers in the attempt to create a basis of common understanding; that was not faith AS a philosophy.
(Examples of the common vocabulary employed by Christology: “logos,” “prosopon,” “ousia” …. )
Esteemed Keenan,
So that we losers may finally realize that we insist on giving away the victory He has wrought?
(Read the headlines, today, any day – proof texting here.)