Latter Day Sinner

There are some very well meaning people that don’t believe in leprechauns. They are adamant that modern science precludes the existence of them along with fairies and vampires and dragons. Many go on to insist that since it is irrational to believe in these sorts of creatures that I should be forced to admit that the gods I study are equally fictitious. But fiction is powerful. The human race creates ideas that delight, frighten and compel us. I find the compulsion that leprechauns, fairies, vampires, and dragons are valid expressions of the human psyche stronger than the forces that would have me ignore them for the sake of an equally mythical hyperrealism. Is every single god humans have ever worshipped a literal one? Probably not. But does every single literary one inform us about each other? I think they do. In some very strong sense I believe in leprechauns, fairies, vampires, dragons, and yes my dear reader even in your gods.