That's what sold me on Theravadan Buddhism. Granted, I was searching and found that it was the closest thing as far as religion goes that I was looking for. The goal being freedom from suffering in this lifetime - the question or idea of "God" isn't even bothered with. And it came with some pretty simple instructions, or action items as you put it, similar to Christianity's ten commandments.
It all boils down to the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path:
This was an easy thing to grasp at the time and everything I've learned about it from practicing comes back to this. The question of samsara and reincarnation and ultimately achieving Nirvana makes much more sense to me than being able to live an utterly awful, hateful, hurtful and miserable life and asking for forgiveness and accepting Christ on my deathbed getting me into heaven. That's just me though. My whole family is Catholic and hat's cool with me. To each their own. We're all just passing through anyway no matter what your faith or lack thereof is.