Are church people boring?

I am starting to think that some people who frequent churches are simply boring: alternatively, it could just be that many English people are boring.

I was at a bellringing event on Saturday which started with some ringing for an hour: this was fine. Then I played for a service - also fine, if poorly attended.

We then went to the church hall for tea followed by an AGM. Tea took far too long even allowing for the number of people who had to be served. Of course, this was due to chit-chat. Some people who had not been at the service or the ringing before that came to the meeting.

There was not a lot to discuss nor many decisions to be made yet the business meeting lasted over an hour by which time the post-meeting ringing was late starting and was actually abandoned because so few returned to the church.

I have attended Zoom meetings when somebody is allowed to speak and they do so at length, slowly and without making any real points: they just want to vent. So, at this in-person meeting, a few people spoke but nothing they said move the meeting forward at all.

I conclude that many (English) people simply like to fill their time pontificating and do not know when to shut up. It is the same with sermons.