A Miss Is As Good As a Mile

This will surprise those who know me, but I'm deeply religious. So much so, in fact, that I don't believe in one god, I believe in lots of them. Some people would say that's not religion, that's superstition, but what I want to know is why believing in one old guy with white hair who sits on a throne up in the sky flanked by his son and a fifth of holy spirits is okay, but believing in a whole pantheon of gods each with his or her own specialty is lunacy. So there's this one god I count on daily, the god who looks after fools. I can't begin to tell you how often he's kept me from bad trouble when I've been short-sighted, deluded, inept, or just plain stupid. How do I know he exists? Well, if he doesn't, then who keeps the traffic flowing on freeways most of the time when so darn many drivers are incompetent? If there's no god who looks after fools then how do people get elected to high office with fewer credentials than Sanjaya's hairdresser, and manage to totally screw up the world all the while slipping away from the wrath of the god who goes around smiting people? It's amazing how few people get smote compared to how many deserve it.