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Me, puritanical? LOLz.
I like to compete. I don't want to have to fill my already fucked blood supply with dangerous chemicals just to remain competitive. The anti-doping rules are in place to discourage cheating pricks from doing just that. I make no money from sport so the anti-doping rules have nothing to do with profitability. If that was truly the case they'd not bother testing amateurs.
There is no 'god' that's going to punish someone who stops another earning an income from their sport because that someone was cheating. There is WADA though.
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What's morality got to do with sport? Sport is arbitrary competition and you'd be hard-pressed to apply ethics to it.
I'm being a little disingenuous here, so let me say this: the moral outrage toward doping strikes me as rather puritanical. So if you're a Protestant then fine, yes, it is a moral issue and God will see to it you are punished if you dope. The rules against doping are otherwise practical, to keep the sport operating in the way we want it to and to keep it interesting and, dare I say, profitable.