Is being an atheist important to you?

[Belacqua]

The fact that I don't believe in god actually is pretty important to me. Maybe I like the rebellious aspects of it, I'm not really sure.

I can see that it's important to people, in that it's a pretty important part of how they see themselves in the world. Not that we devote much of each day to thinking about our role in the world. 

What worries me is people's tendency to define themselves in terms of what they oppose. "Negative identity." 

Some people are just atheist, and some people are in addition wildly anti-religion, and the anti- part becomes personally important.