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I suppose my most defining attribute (especially around here) would be my atheism. I say my atheism because it is after all simply a word that could be used to describe me. But I'm no more an atheist than I am a non-alchemist, or non-astrologist or any other such terms. Atheism shouldn't exist. If there was a Church of Atheism, I'd suggest that be the first commandment. Those like me almost wholly lack the unity of churches, texts, and other such devices. Part by nature, and part by preference. I like to listen and I like to think. I find truth in the minutia of nature. I find truth not in authorities of social groups or ancient texts but in each other equally, including the inhuman and unpersonifiable universe around us.

After the massacre on April 16th 2007 at Virginia Tech a man of despicable virtue and intellectual dishonesty named Dinesh D'Souza used the events to call out Atheism and say:

Dinesh DSouza said:

A brave professor whose name I cannot find replied with such surrealistic resonance that I have taken a part of it as my creed. Perhaps he is a more articulate man than I, or perhaps the humanity of the events empowered him to be so profound; but in either case, he expresses what is deepest within me better than I ever could:

VaTech Professor said:

The professor's response in full