What makes a religion?

[Mystic]

From my perspective:

Not following the true path is itself following a path of falsehood.  Apathy to the truth is itself rebellion against it. Apathy to the existence of God is disrespect of God.

Point to me a clear path of truth and a self evident God and perhaps I'll be interested.

I've tried over the years. What do you think of the argument that we require an just judgement and perception to who we are, to have an exact merit type value? Is it that we don't have exact merit type value or is that it doesn't require perception to exist? Or is that we do have and it requires perception, and we are the perception that maintains it?

I feel the Quran aside from the name of God, begins with that argument in the first Surah revealed (Suratal Iqra). 

"Do they (the human) think no one sees them (the human)?"