The Renaissance Is Often Considered the Beginning of a Modern

The Renaissance is often considered the beginning of a modern secular spirit because

A) Renaissance scholars were so impressed by the works of Greece and Rome that they abandoned the Christian religion
B) Renaissance artists, with their emphasis on the nude, began a cult of the body that eventually denied the existence of the soul
C) Renaissance scholars, though religious, were usually not men of the churches, monasteries or universities-institutions dominated by religious thought
D) None of these are correct