Hoos and Hokies. What's Up With Virginia Mascots?

I ran across this quote in Sean's away message and it reminds me of why I love Jefferson so much:

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."

I'm not the praying type. I'm not the religious type, either. I'm more your proponent of reason, your religion-as-philosophy. I don't go the the Bible to find comfort unless it's in the language, because the King James translation is one of the best pieces of poetry ever to hit the shelves.

However, there are words I go to for comfort, every time, and I can't believe that any god would fault me:

"then let men kill which cannot share,
let blood and flesh be mud and mire,
scheming imagine,passion willed,
freedom a drug that's bought and sold

giving to steal and cruel kind,
a heart to fear,to doubt a mind,
to differ a disease of same,
conform the pinnacle of am

though dull were all we taste as bright,
bitter all utterly things sweet,
maggoty minus and dumb death
all we inherit,all bequeath

and nothing quite so least as truth
—i say though hate were why man breathe—
because my father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all" --e.e. cummings