Have You Read About The Great Awakenings First And Second?

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  1. Lon Tanner

    Lon Tanner Supreme Member
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    Both Awakenings in England & later in the 13 U.S. Colonies were responsible for most all present day religions. Evangelicals like Ellen G. White, Joseph Smith and their visions flourished during this period. I often wonder if the world would be better off if it had just stayed asleep. As a Humanist myself, it makes no difference to me.
     
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    Obviously Christianity existed many centuries before the awakenings of the 1700's and 1800's, as did Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam.

    The Christian cult religions of Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventism, and Christian Science were all divergents from the Christian religion, not responsible for it.

    I know little about the two awakening movements except that several good and bad results came from it that both hurt and helped the faith. In any case, our country's founding fathers and the mainstream protestant church denominations beheld the Christian faith as the world's one and only true religion that should be revered by all. This attitude would have prevailed with or without the awakening movements.
     
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