Faith in free software (Score 1)

This has been a topic that I've wondered about for a while and you'll forgive me if it's just s little bit more personal than some of the other questions.

In my reading about the "open source" verses "free software" debate, two little facts dropped out:

• ESR has been described as a 'neopagan'
• while you've been quoted as saying you're an atheist

I know you've (jokingly) dressed the part of "free software messiah".

It seems to me at least, that ESR is taking the less 'evangelical' route; that his existing religion is blunting a 'pure belief' in the ideals of free software. Could you comment on your faith in the ideology of free software?

Thanks.