Religion??

I wrote this post a long time back (was one of those first 100 posts that I had drafted away). Have been planning to republish it for quiet some time. Somehow, just didn't do it..
Read on..
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Since I have become such a fan of what Lance Armstrong wrote, I'll quote something from his book which I felt was exactly same to what I thought. His views match with the beliefs that I hold, that whatever I quote here, is more or less, what you'll get if you'd ask me..

"I ask myself what I believe. I have never prayed a lot. I hope hard, I wish hard, but I don't pray. I have developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I feel I have the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believe I have a responsibility to be a good person, and that means fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If I do that, if I am good to my family, true to my friends, if I give back to my community or to some cause, if I am not a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believe that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed somebody or presence standing there to judge me, I hope I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, "But you were never a Christian/Hindu/etc, so you're going the other way from heaven." If so, I am going to reply, "You know what? You're right. Fine.""