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Week 5 Assignment - PBS God in America 4- A New Light

Week 5 Assignment - PBS God in America 4- A New Light

Q Here is the link to "God in America #4- A New Light". The essay directions follow. Click here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to view the video.: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/godinamerica/ Reflect on "God in America", Episode Four- "A New Light" • Watch God in America, Episode Four, “A New Light” (about an hour). • Write one or two paragraphs that summarize the episode. What was its main point/s? What in the video supported that main point/s? • Write one or two paragraphs that reflect on the episode. How did it connect to what you already knew? What questions did it raise? What did you learn? Of what value is what you learned? • Submit your essay in the text entry box

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Every new idea has clashed with existing ideas whenever light has been shed on those, and the way religion was to be believed, practiced, and regarded for also kept on evolving because of the many men who came forward to build a more coherent relationship between God and man, and those who believed in the literal relationship. The video takes the viewers back in time where the conflict within religion started much before than what took shape between science and religion. With the entry of the Jews in America, Judaism eventually shaped on two fronts, one was the traditional and orthodox Judaism where religion was meant to be a reflection of what was written in the scriptures, and the other was the reformative views, where traditional religion was to be infused by modern life practices and given a shape that was more logical and not blind.