(A) My study of the history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. ‘Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religious.

(B) This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces.

(C) These early faiths expressed the wonder and mystery that seems always to have been an essential component of the human experience of this beautiful yet terrifying world.

(D) Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognizably human; they created religions at the same time as they created works of art.