Dear Proud,
“You think this is normal not to go to shul? Tefilla is the most important thing. If you do the right thing everything will be fine.”
1) Shul has nothing to do with Tefilla. And vice versa.
2) When is tefilla most important?
3) What is the right thing?
(Maybe we should follow the yearnings of the navi. Let’s head for the desert and wail the corpse-like state that is our nation.)