Some people approach God as if he is mechanical rather than
personal; as if checking all the right religious boxes will get you what you
want out of him, after which you can happily go on your way until the next time
you need something.
It’s not specifically a Catholic thing, an Orthodox thing,
or a Protestant thing, but it’s definitely a thing. The tendency to view
God as a stimulus-response Being on a cosmic scale can infect even the most theoretically-liberated
evangelical heart.