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I mean, what does it mean to "waste time" in this context? There's a certain existential dread that comes with the mystery of death - really the mystery of consciousness generally speaking - and we all cope with it as best we can. I don't think a ritualized means of managing one's anxiety is time wasted. If your genuflections to a carving of a guy on a crucifix sooth your own anxieties of loss-of-self, more power to you.
But it does feel a bit like someone asking "What if you stepped on a crack and then it really did break your mother's back?" I mean, that would be very scary and sad. I can't see the correlation between these two things. I'm not going to painstakingly tip-toe down the sidewalk out of a concern I don't take seriously.
Sitting in church, reading the Bible and Bible studies, praying to God, time spent working that is then tithed, etc.
Is the man sitting in church and reading from the Bible wasting his time any more or less than the man sitting in a field and contemplating the stars? In the end, they both amount to the same thing.