What answer best expresses why secularism came to be?
1.european monarchs were fed up with the church dominating everything. 2.renaissance thinkers showed how the church was not meeting the needs of the people.
3.renaissance culture introduced the idea of enjoying life on earth rather than focusing one's earthly efforts on spiritual salvation.
4.people were more interested in types of art and philosophy that disagreed with the church.
5.humanism was such a compelling philosophy that it drew people away from the church.

1.European monarchs were fed up with the Church dominating everything.

Explanation:

As the church was gaining more and more power, the diverse monarchs were already tired of habing to answer to the Vatican, and because it was a large source of power before they had to do it, but since British had left the vatican and started their own religion, that was lead by the king other monarchs assumed and started to think that it was no longer necessary to be backed up by the pope to be able to rule a country, this added up with the ideas of the reinassance helped to emancipate empires from the vatican influence.

b or c ( this is because my answer is short so just ignore it)

b. germany and italy