Aw, heck, plenty of people blame their mommy, or not getting that big break, or bad luck, or that guy that did something wrong to them at a critical moment, it's an infinite list. Without God, it's a more deterministic universe; you can concieve of man as a mixture of genes and environment, reacting only. His brain chemistry dictates who he is. Throw in the spirit, things understood not through physical or material means, and WHAM! You have free will. No clockwork mechanisms and inputs and outputs define you. Add a God who is also free to act outside of physical determinism and who you can have a relationship with and the world is a magical place where things happen, and these things have meaning and consequence.
Unfortunately, Greg, your reply seems like a long run-on sentence, and I’m having a hard time figuring out what your specific point is.
I guess a reason why I am different from a lot of people is that I grew up a christian (cradle catholic, in fact), but the years of hypocrisy (not of membership, but the difference between what is taught and what occurs in nature) drove me to believe that religion itself is merely a human construct.
Please elaborate on your point.