A couple of thoughts here:

Steve Shaw, you say 'he will want to go to the pub, which for most people is a jolly good thing to want to do.

Quite apart from all the violence, broken homes, disease, bankruptcies and murders that have been a direct result over a thousand generations of pubs and its equivalents, you accept drinking as acceptable and fun and part and parcel of a normal society. Why is that?

As far as going to church because the priest tells you to is concerned, many people get great comfort and peace and an affirmation of a sense of community from their attendance at church. The fact that they believe they got the comfort from their God should not be your concern.

Some people from time to time get not only comfort and peace but are inspired, sometimes almost against their conscious wills, into participation in causes they had considered too dangerous to join. Who are we to say that that inspiration did not come from somewhere outside themselves?

It may be somewhat the same thing many people get from a session of deep meditation but the end result is indisputable. Many a decision is made on metaphorical knees.