Excellent comment. Much in there of me too.
"It really opened up my way of thinking about things. I decided that I didn't need religion
to have faith because my faith was in my fellow humans and not some sky god."
I worry that those who live on earth for a more rewarding afterlife cannot possible appreciate life for what it truly is.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”