During the thousands of years of humankind’s history, man’s search for God has gone down many pathways. The result has been an enormous diversity of religious expressions found worldwide. From the endless variety of Hinduism, to the monotheism of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and to the philosophies of Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. In other regions of the world, humans have turned to animism, magic, spiritism, and shamanism.

The history of religion is so old that evidence of some sort of worship has been found even in the most primitive civilizations. This leads scholars to believe that at no time in history has there ever been a civilization without a religion.

Whether or not this search for God has been successful, no one knows, but it is only one of the many distinctive traits of human diversity and is undeniably one of the most complicated.