*That you don’t lose when you leave the church
- A magical worldview
- A willingness to be weird
- An outrageous origin story
- An outsized perspective on the transience of earthly matters
- A family tree stretching forward and backward in time and spanning the width of the world
- A language for the divine
- A love of knowledge for its own sake
- A big stupid courage and enough of it to die for what is right
- A host of heroes and the wild notion that I can be one too
- An ego the size of a planet and a drive strong enough to make gods