I totally agree with you, religion aside from personality defines who we are as a person. Faith comes in when we talk about religion because it is believing in a higher power or energy which or whom we haven't seen but we know that it exists. When we have a religion we always have hope and so we carry on with our lives no matter how difficult it is in this journey called life. Why? Because we believe that we will always be saved and guided on what to do, because we pray. Just imagine a person who doesn't have a religion, who loses hope and eventually decides to end up his life because he has no one or nothing to turn to. His life it seems for him is meaningless and with never ending sorrow and despair compared to a person who believes in his religion who prays and hopes that tomorrow will be another day to battle all the uncertainties and hardships in life yet he knows that at the end of the rainbow there is sunshine because his God will never forsake or leave him.