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Sounds like you've already lost your religion and found another world view that's closer to home for you. That may or may not change in the future, as you grow older. I went through a similar transition in college, and have come full circle more than once in the thirty odd years since...having children, growing older, and burying people you love, among other things, tends to drive changes in one's core beliefs.
Will and others have given good advice...know and be at peace with yourself, and others who respect you for that will stand by you (certainly parents, as I define and strive to live out the definition of it, never would reject you for heartfelt personal beliefs). Those who reject you simply reveal that it was only their evangelical Christian beliefs which connected them to you, and shared core beliefs, while arguably essential in certain instances (eg, marriage), isn't enough to serve as the basis for a deep friendship. In fact, respect for differences of opinion works better than shared faith, in my experience. Anyhow, like separating wheat from chaff, you'll know who your real friends are, and can let the others go, relegating them to the category of drinking buddies, where shared religious belief is the booze.
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