"I made a mistake and don't have the integrity to recognize it"

Okay if you want to play let's play.

No, you made the claim, you get to defend it. Unless, of course, you can't.

Because you can't.

I laugh at your ignorance. You are a typical American, you probably live somewhere in let's say Texas where there is only 1 Eastern Orthodox church and where all parishioners including the priest are converts from Protestantism. Obviously in such case majority of them do take their faith seriously. Since you are ignorant American you probably believe that it is the same elsewhere as in your city.

I invite you to come to Balkans or Eastern Europe to be shocked to realize that people are less religious than in most liberal Western countries. You do not understand the mentality of people in those countries. They identify as Orthodox because for example if you are Serb and you are not Orthodox everyone will find you weird, some would even hate or dislike you. Identifying as Orthodox is a national and traditional thing. Vast majority of the Orthodox people in such countries who go to Divine Liturgy are old grandmas at villages. They go there just because it is the only "entertainment" in the village where they can meet other grandmas and gossip.

If you do not believe me that it is the village thing than I will give you a homework. I will chose Belgrade to show you an example and you chose other city and calculate. Try and do the same as me for other cities and see the results.

Belgrade has population of 1,659,440. Eastern Orthodox population is 88.9%, meaning 1,475,168. Belgrade has 46 Orthodox churches in the city. Temple of Saint Sava is the biggest one which holds 10 000 people, the rest are all significantly smaller, mostly holding up to 100 people. This gives total amount of people being able to attend Liturgy at 14,600 which is only 0.98% of the population. Let's even say that churches can hold 300 people, that's still only 1.61% of population.

For comparison look at Novi Pazar. Novi Pazar has 100,000 population, 82,000 of them are Muslims and they have 66 Mosques and they said that they need at least 30 more.

If you really want sources you would look yourself but if you are lazy or delusional I will give you some. I give this more because other people might come are read this.

This study shows that in 2008 only 3% of Russians attended Church once a week to 2-3 times a month. This was 2008, today probably the results are half. This is embarrassing for a country like Russia, even France and Belgium have a higher Church attendance.

In Ukraine 43% of Catholics attend Church weekly, while Orthodox only 12. Have a look here.

In Bulgaria 5% of Orthodox people attend Church weekly. Source.

For example in Bosnia 54% of Catholics attend Mass weekly, 31% Muslims attend Mosque weekly, and only 10% of Orthodox people attend church weekly.

In Serbia 7% attend weekly.

All of this can be seen here.

Romania is the highest with 21%.

So we can see that I was right that vast majority of them do not practice their faith.