In the beginning there was darkness. Then there was light. Then there was consciousness. Then there were questions and then there was religion. Religions sprouted up all over the world as a response to some of humanity's most troubling questions and fears. Why are we here? Where do we come from? Why does the world and nature act as it does? What happens when you die?         Religions tended to answer all these questions with stories …showed first 75 words of 1566 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1566 total…even sure what it contains, maybe the answers to our own primordial questions.          WORKS CITED World Religions From Ancient History to the Present editor: Geoffrey Parrinder, copyright 1971, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. Essays On a Science of Mythology Carl Jung, copyright 1949, Pantheon Books Inc. Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell, copyright 1972, Viking Press Religions of the World Lewis M. Hopfe, Copyright 1976, Prentice-Hall Inc. Mythology Edith Hamilton, copyright 1942, Little Brown Inc. Encarta '95 copyright 1995, Microsoft corp.