The Forgotten God

There is a striking [mythology] taken down word for word from a Red Indian in California ... in the middle of which is a sudden parenthesis saying that the sun and moon have to do something because 'It is ordered that way by the Great Spirit Who lives above the place of all.' That is exactly the attitude of most paganism towards God. He is something assumed and forgotten and remembered by accident; a habit possibly not peculiar to pagans.

—G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man.