Ekeko is a god of good luck in Peru and the surrounding region. Photo by Marjorie Manicke.

If a “religion” is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel has taught us that, not only is mathematics a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.

Barrow, J.D., Between Inner Space and Outer Space, Oxford University Press, New York (1999), p. 88.