From a psychological perspective, it's to be expected that religionists are prone to these kinds of problems. Religion is one means whereby people attempt to reduce the anxiety that arises from living in a world over which we have little or no control. If we use the analogy of balancing on a beam, someone with good balance merely stretches out their arms a little (perhaps they adopt a rationalist or Stoic perspective). Someone with less adequate balance needs a stabilizer bar (indulging in "spirituality" or one of the more watered-down religious offerings). Someone with very poor balance will need a very large stabilizer bar indeed (catholicism, Islamic extremism, evangelicism, mormonism, jehova's witnesses, etc.). And of course someone with very poor balance is going to fall, regardless of how big a stabilizer bar they clutch with increasing desperation, especially when that stabilizer bar is inherently making everything worse because it's unbalanced and makes unrealistic demands of the person clinging to it.