How could anyone, who claims to be a resident in Thailand, and regularly pontificates on the country, make the fundamentally flawed analogy between the Thais use of Wats, and the Christian use of churches! To go on to extrapolate that this makes thais more religious, whatever that term means in this context, is surely just a plea for attention.
What Thais are, is more spiritual, with animist and non Buddhist related concepts such as spirit houses, wearing Buddhas to fend off evil. It has NOTHING to do with Buddhist devoutness.