People worship Buddha not to cultivate Buddhahood, but to seek Buddha s blessings so that they can make a fortune, eliminate adversity, have a son, or lead a comfortable life. Everyone accrued a lot of karma in previous lives. Seeing that the human mind is not righteous, demons have come out of their caves one after another to bring trouble and chaos to the human world. Seeing that the human mind is not righteous, Gods and Buddhas have left their posts and abandoned the temples one after another. Many foxes, weasels, ghosts, and snakes have been brought into the temples by those who come to pray for wealth and profit.
Human beings are sinners.
Buddhas do not punish people, because all people are driven by ignorance and have already done harm to themselves. Moreover, they have accrued great amounts of karma for themselves, and great catastrophes soon await them. In fact, if a person does something wrong, he is bound to suffer retribution sometime in the future. Regardless of who or what social forces tell you not to practice cultivation anymore, you then give up your cultivation. This, in fact, is true ignorance.