dear stillin...
You said, "I just don't care to be classified as some self-serving pagan or heathen"...
Pagan means something like "living outside the city". I guess in the biblical context it could mean someone who doesn't subscribe to the notion that Yehovah is the supreme God to be worshipped and obeyed. Heathen means unconverted.
IF people who don't know you have really been "classifying" you as self-serving, and saying that to you, you really shouldn't care.
IF that is only your perception of what they MAY be thinking, then stop it. That's like beating yourself up.
xo