I am, as I have noted repeatedly, an atheist - but you will have noticed, no doubt, that I am not one of the cliche snarky sneering contemptuous variety. The way the whole thing presents to my mind is different from many, because I am not at all interested in the (almost universally hallucinatory) armour of self-definition - that rationalizing-language that we assemble around ourselves for comfort. I'm interested in real substance. Not the sales-pitch, but the function!