Please post how you arrived at the answer as well! Thank you 
Question: The author refers to “religion” (47) in order to:
A) show that ritual collecting involves a certain set of rituals
B) suggest that an attraction to orchids automatically involves a set of shared beliefs
C) indicate that orchid enthusiasts routinely join organized societies
D) underscore how people connected to orchids are especially devoted to environmental causes
E) emphasize the importance of orchids in some people’s lives
Passage:
Everyone I was meeting connected to orchids had circled their lives around some great desire, a desire that then answered questions for them about how to spend their time and their money and who their friends would be and where they would travel and what they did when they got there. It was religion. I wanted to want something as much as these people wanted these plants. I wanted to know what it feels like to care about something so passionately.
The answer is B, but for me it was a tossup between B and E. What would be the reasoning to choose B (justification for which comes before the word ‘religion’), and E (which is justified by the 2 sentences afterwards)?