Die, Sweet Roadrunner, Die

Actually, this touches on a couple of religion's tactics.

For one, religious people usually take advantage of others when they are down in the dumps and desperate. When someone is down and depressed, they'll believe anything to make them feel better.

There is also a vulnerability of people to commit their lives to one thing and then feel dead inside after they've obtained it. Religion takes advantage of this by replacing one absolute devotion with another.

The obsessive commitment just continues with religion instead of getting to the heart of the matter. A real solution is to help people balance their lives and allow their obsessive virtues to branch out into other things.