Religion is a rare and definite conviction of what this world of ours really is. Superstition is only a commonsense acceptation of what it obviously is. Sane peasants, healthy hunters, are all superstitious; they are superstitious because they are healthy and sane. They have a reasonable fear of the unknown; for superstition is only the creative side of agnosticism. The superstitious man sees quite plainly that the universe is a thing to be feared. The religious man maintains paradoxically that the universe is a thing to be trusted. The awe certainly is the obvious thing; the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom [....] but not the end.

-A Handful of Authors (1953)