Religion? No Thanks. Care For Others? Yes Please. Can Anyone Relate?

I grew up in the Christian church for the first 18 years of my life. I attended a nondenominational church for ~16 years and a CRC church for ~2. My high school girlfriend and her family (highly involved in the church, father an elder, mother worked in student ministries) were the most repulsive hypocrites I’ve ever known. That family and the scores of other ‘christians’ I’ve known made me realize how utterly worthless religion is. I don’t make a habit of judging people, but I am far more considerate and caring than my ex-girlfriend (who parties on the weekends, goes to a bible college during the week and plans on attending seminary????). Did I mention that this ‘christian’ girl and I had sex for a year and a half too? Now that I don’t call myself ‘christian’ I don’t have sex, and I won’t until I find my wife. Religion means NOTHING! My beliefs = who cares if there is a god? Does it really make a difference? If there was no god would you just go around treating people like crap? I care about other people simply because this world will implode if all anyone cares about is me me me. I don’t need to go to church every week or pray to an invisible thingy or hand out tracts to be a good person. All I need is me. I’m not perfect, and I’ll never claim to be. My life goals include becoming a doctor, using my skills to help people in need (including not charging outrageous amounts of money for health care and treating the underprivileged), marry an amazing woman, have kids, love my kids more than anything in the world, leave the world a better place than when I came into it and…..finish an Ironman Triathlon It takes the same amount of effort to love someone that it does to hate them. We may be conditioned to hate, but why not love? This is by no means a complete summary of my beliefs and I admit in my passion I may have misrepresented myself (you aren’t me and therefore you won’t interpret these things exactly as I intended). If you have questions, comments, or you feel some of the same things I do, please let me know! I’m dying to know I’m not alone!!!