D. Doing sub-par work to purposely anger a plantation owner
Postive effects could be that it brings people together, gives them a community for supporting each other, focuses their attention on God. It provides a moral framework, comfort for those in need, the promise of an afterlife... and so on.
Negative effects are that the different religions can be seen to inspire conflict in the world, some might say that they focus people too much on religious things rather than on day to day things (so you lose the plot basically!).
Octavius caesar, better known as Augustus
Secularism is the rule of the partition of government foundations and people ordered to speak to the state from religious organizations and religious dignitaries.
The secularists look for the total detachment of chapel and state is on account of they need to expel all religious impact from open life.
The correct answer is B, "Christianity." Christianity dominated the Middle East before the rise of Islam.