Most people don't go because they don't really care. It's what they were raised with; their religion, and they don't really think beyond that.
I stopped believing in God when I was eight. I didn't like the blind faith that most of the people I knew had in Him. I had already gotten my First Communion, and my mom was still able to go to church (she can't physically go anymore), I would help her get there and wait outside because it felt wrong to be there when I didn't believe in Him in any way. Father Mike liked me, and once he noticed that I was there, just not coming in, he asked me why. I told him it was because I didn't like God the way people talk about it, that I didn't want to believe in something that says everyone is a sinner. Every mass after that he would let me stay in his office, and read the books he had on religion. Not just Christian or Catholic, but Judaism, Buddism, Islam, Wicca, Paganism, and a few others. I decided I liked Paganism best. I researched it for a few more years; I've been Pagan for five years.
Other people don't go because it's not in their religion, or they don't think they need a building to believe in God. Some people were forced to go as children, they they don't want to go now, or force their kids to go. Some people don't like sitting for an hour or more listening to someone talk.
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