False piety

This post arises mainly from the massive protests against not doing the lord's prayer in the legislature, but it's an idea that has been festering for a long time.

There are some religious people (hereinafter The Religious People or RP) who seem to have a really strong need to make non-religious (or differently-religious) people (hereinafter The Non-Religious People or NRP) go through the motions of praying in the Religious People's manner and to the Religious People's deity even though the Non-Religious People don't mean it and are only going through the motions. (I think the RP are also collaborating with the xmas junta.) Even if the NRP say explicitly "No, I don't want say that prayer or sing that hymn or put up that cross because I don't believe in it and I'd just be emptily going through the motions anyway," the RP still try to force them to do that knowing full well they don't believe in it. It's like they're trying to bully people into displaying false piety.

I wonder what the RP get out of this? Some random person who's completely irrelevant to your personal or spiritual life goes through the motions of believing what you believe, either because they were bullied into it or to get you to STFU. And you know full well that they're just pretending. Why is that worth the effort? Why do the RP care? And why is the RP's inclination to try to force all the NRP to put on a show (and making the NRP be like the Pharisee in the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector) rather than just living their own values, putting on their own show when they feel the need, and letting the NRP stand as contrast?