“The ten commandments. Prayer. Meditation. Bible study. All that. And yet the leaders, pastors and members are themselves nasty, corrupt and immoral.”
NONE of that will rid society of its ills. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ and heeding His statement that the two greatest commandments are to love God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and love my neighbor as myself will.
However I've been told that since none of us are perfect, we cannot hold ourselves to those two commandments. So it still doesn't work.