often seen in the street without a hat

H'mm. I went from pretty devout Christian to agnostic to aetheist. I used to define my own agnosticism in terms of no longer occupying myself with questions about the existence of a deity - so not caring rather than not knowing. Not that that has much to do with anything. I don't personally think aetheism is to do with ethics or morals though. Some friends used to criticise humanism as a way of asserting human superiority over everything else.

And I love your icon! I teared up today when I was teaching, because it was a film on the Argentinian dictatorship. Is that inappropriate? And finally - bucolic nature quite often makes me weep, as do bulldozers, but for different reasons.