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.
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