Here lies John

When we say we believe in God do we do so because we are actually looking for a crutch to absolve us from making decisions about life for ourselves. 

When we are faced with a dilemma and have to sort it out in our own mind as to what is good and bad, right or wrong do we not forgo our intellect and fall back on tradition and subvert everything to the religious concept of the 'protective wise father' for which we all crave.
Or rather does our humanity come from "a work in progress", each day each situation providing a fresh canvas for we humans to work from scratch.
Isn't it this which makes us unique, the free will to decide our own reaction to things and in the very act of deciding to find out more about ourselves and scope out a little more defining and developing, refining ever more our individual character.

The dilemma of living a 'religious life' is that you forgo the battle and hand over the 'decision making' to someone else and, in so doing loose the unique 'personal' side of your conflict by amalgamating yourself with mankind as a whole.

Of course there is the Collegiate aspect to religion and the comfort of belonging to a broad church. Finding common ground with so many others is comforting, knowing you are not alone.
It's this awful prospect that at death you are truly alone, with all your fine principles and carefully reasoned argument, you are going to disappear with all the rhetoric and fine phrases into nothing.
One of the unique things about human beings is that we have a mind which allows us to escape the mundane with flights of fancy about our own importance but it's an importance built on foundations in sand. Given time we will be forgotten, the sand will have covered our tracks and it will be as if we had never been here at all.
Sans wine, sans singer, sans end.