Fate vs Religion

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Fate and religion are coincided within my head. For me, I feel it is to make a decision on if fate exists and how it works. This is what I came up with:
There are paths that can be chosen, that can have different outcomes, however the path you choose the path you were ultimately supposed to choose. This could be considered fate. This also could be considered as God's plan. He has a predetermined path for us to take, or paths. And with free well we are able to choose what plan to take. I believe though that we are supposed to choose a certain path, one that could also be considered our instincts.
In Things Fall apart, Okonkwo is trying to determine his own fate by steering clear on his fathers.  He wishes not to follow in his fathers footsteps. I have not finished the end of the novel yet, however because he is trying to control all directions of a path he has chosen, I feel in the end he will have received the fate of what was the result of the path chosen. Each path has many paths within it. It gets very complicated, but you only have one chance unlike Lola who asked for do-overs.
In the German film, Lola has three different paths set out for her. I feel the path that was supposed to happen would have been the one she chose in the present time, whichever one that was. You do not get to re-do anything, so the one that is chosen, is the one that was set out for you.
Odeipus had paths to take, he had options that he could've chosen. However he ended up to be where he was at the end, dead, because that was his fate. He could've changed his fate, but because he chose the path he did led him to his predetermined plan. The difference with our society and Odeipus is that he knew his fate before hand, so he was trying to steer away from it. We do not know our fates, so in that sense it seems that we have control but do we really? How could we know. And this is where I feel religion comes in.
Religion is a hard, complicated subject because you are told to believe something that often brain washes you, but every time I actually sit back to think about my religion I second guess myself. I need to come to a conclusion myself, not have a government force ideas into my face. Fate I feel, that faith is need and very similar. Both are intangible, and are our own opinion. But it is had for me, because I feel for myself to make decision, I need to truly evaluate how I fit in the jigsaw of Catholics.