NT FACE="verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,geneva">Spirituality has been an 
  important component in the lives of men and women since the dawn of human history. 
  Religion did not arise simply because people wanted to appease powerful forces. 
  It helped them relate to their environment and ground themselves in it. Primarily, 
  though, religion has been the means to explain the tragedy and suffering of 
  this beautiful, yet terrifying world. Through the thousands and thousands of 
  years of human 