People pay to use a holiday let I own in Fife that used to be a chapel.. Still got the altar, although I moved it to the back where we built a kitchen annex. It makes an excellent island, and we had a double butler sink cut into it.

Most old ruins that used to be churches are run by English Heritage, NT etc, and people pay good money to walk round them.

They may have been built to the glory of some god or other, but they remain to the glory of man and heritage.

By the way, many churches do not "allow" other things but are required to open up the use of the building in return for certain charitable funding. It isn't in the gift of the church to dictate terms when agreeing to conditions, same as any other applicant for grants.

Do you think people only visit churches because of the weekly rituals? No wonder it's called the god delusion....