Belief in ‘the indestructible’ is not intellectual. It is expressed in
action. ‘Belief means freeing the indestructible in oneself, or
rather: freeing oneself, or rather: being indestructible, or rather:
being.’ It bridges the gulf between consciousness and being. And it
enables Kafka effortlessly to surmount a problem that worries
many people who reflect on religion, namely the fact that the
majority of people feel no need to reflect on religion. William
James in The Varieties of Religious Experience borrows from a
Catholic writer the division of humanity into the once-born and
the twice-born. The latter are the minority who feel anxiety about
their relation to something beyond themselves. The former are
unreflective, uncomplicated, and largely content to get on with
their lives. For Kafka, both classes of people arrive by different
routes at the same goal, that of being; the twice-born like himself
have a very much longer and more arduous journey, the others can
be ‘dans le vrai’ already.
— Ritchie Robertson, Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
Notes from a Room 