Religious observance shifts the timing of sin rather than reducing its total

Evidence

It may come as a surprise that, once a number of demographic factors were statistically controlled, religious and nonreligious states did not differ. On average, states that teemed with regular churchgoers had no fewer porn subscribers than those with few churchgoers. However, what Edelman found next gives the age-old practice of sinning a new twist: porn consumption rates in religious states followed a particular ebb and flow: the rates went down on Sundays, only to go up again on other days of the week. On average, regular churchgoers consumed similar amounts of porn as others; however, they abstained more on Sundays and shifted their porn consumption to other days of the week. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 146

Categorization

• XREF: This is direct evidence for the reader’s Big God thesis — the omniscient gaze modulates behavior in temporally targeted bursts rather than continuously; connects to how Father Rodrigues’ apostasy is a Sunday-type event, visible and witnessed.
• QUESTION: If the surveillance effect is purely situational (Sundays only), what happens to believers’ moral behavior under permanent, private omniscient belief without situational cues?