Full Idea
In these four things - opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of religion.
Gist of Idea
Religion is built on ignorance and misinterpretation of what is unknown or frightening
Source
Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.12)
Book Reference
Hobbes,Thomas: 'Leviathan', ed/tr. Macpherson,C.B. [Penguin 1981], p.172