Church Repels?

I am currently reading Alister McGrath's The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. In church, we, too often, feel the coldness (rather than warmness) of the members. Is it because of nominalism, unregenerate Spirit, or we have simply forgotten and chosen to ignore the our Lord's admonition that we must love our neighbours as ourselves. Anyway, I think the only solution we have is to pray... ... in the hope that history doesn't repeat itself!

Paradoxically, history strongly suggests that those who are attracted to atheism are first repelled by theism. What propels people toward atheism is above all a sense of revulsion against the excess and failures of organized religion. Atheism is ultimately a worldview of fear –a fear, often merited, of what might happen if religious maniacs were to take over the world. The existence and appeal of atheism in the West is thus largely derivative, mirroring the failings of the churches and specific ways of conceiving the Christian faith. ---(Alister McGrath. The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. p. 274)