Kurt Godel's insporation for being a mathmetician was a man named Moritz Schlick. Moritz was assisnated by a former student and Kurt went into a severe nervous crisis where he spent months in a sanitarium.
Kurt and Albert Einstein were close friends and at the end of Einsteins life he proclaimed that his "own work no longer meant much, that he came to the Institute merely ... to have the privilege of walking home with Gödel".
Kurt Godel was a religious man, although he did not go to curch or believe in organized religion. He was a strong believer that God was personal and that the afterlife must exist. He belived Islam was a consistant idea of religion "open-minded".