What is religion?
-Guidelines about how to behave
-answers to life’s biggest questions. 
What are beliefs?
-The acceptance and commitment of an opinion or conviction.  
Explain the following terms:
Animism:  Developed while humans were living as hunter-gatherers. Animists believe that humans and animals (and   sometimes even plants and rocks) have a soul or spirit. 
Polytheism:  Nature soon became thought of as gods given specific names and Animism became polytheism (belief in many Gods.) 
Monotheism:   The ancient Jewish people started following monotheism meaning the belief in only one God.
Agnosticism:  Uncertainty about God or gods.
Atheism:  Belief in no gods. 

