Certainty is not a requirement for reverence.
You may not know whether consciousness has a purpose, whether a ritual reaches beyond the people performing it, or what language belongs around death. You may still sense that some encounters should not be reduced to usefulness.
The sacred can be approached as a quality of relationship: the decision to meet something without immediately consuming, measuring, or mastering it.
A forest can be sacred whether or not we agree on a theology of forests. A body can be sacred without being idealized. A promise can be sacred because of the care required to keep it.
Rational inquiry asks what is true and how we know. Reverence asks how we should stand in the presence of what we know—and what we do not.
These questions do not have to be enemies. Humility belongs to both.
Perhaps the sacred begins wherever certainty loosens its demand to possess, and attention becomes willing to receive.