Answer to Question #218137 in Psychology for Nephty

Question

discuss how you would enlighten your friends who belong

to other religions or faiths, about African religious values.

Answer 1

·Religion was profoundly influenced by the Enlightenment. Many Christians believed the enlightened perspective of the world to be compatible with Christian beliefs, and they used this rational reasoning to prove God's existence and goodness.

·Other Protestants were influenced by the Enlightenment in a very different way. Traditional ideas concerning the character of God were criticized by more liberal Congregationalists and Anglicans, who argued that God was a compassionate, rather than arbitrary, deity.

·Some thinkers believe that God worked as a clockmaker, creating the universe and then stepping aside to watch it function.