I’m not sure you quite answered my questions. I’m still trying to understand how what you define as “religion” is separate from “relationship with God”. I ask with genuine concern because I care very deeply, the most deeply, about my relationship with God and view my religion as that expression. 

To demonstrate my confusion, is any relationship with any God what matters? If my relationship is with a God I believe to be Unitarian (like the Jewish or Islamic faith) vs a Trinitarian God (Christian faith), does that matter? What if I portray God to be unknowable like Sikhism or coming in various forms like Hinduism or deny Christ’s divinity as true God as Arians do? Don’t we need to know who and what we mean to form a relationship?