RE: Why is America so religious?
December 16, 2011 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 6:45 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(December 16, 2011 at 1:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It is only in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War that we start to see fundamentalist-type psychos coming together ( Millerites, Mormons, etc).
Ermm... the Brownists, Mennonites, and Amish, to name only a few of dozens of 'fundamentalist-type psycho' groups, had all been established for well over a century before the revolution! I don't think it gets more established than the Pilgrims, does it?
And it's all a matter of perspective: to the imperial British the American revolutionaries were "fundamentalist-type psychos" too...
"Fundamentalist-type psychos" aren't fazed by one revolution more or less. Look at the mother church! Grandmother church, more like. Two millennia and dozens of revolutions on and still rearing its head today! It's safe to say that you'll see "fundamentalist-type psychos" before, during, and after revolutions. Despite those revolutions. "Fundamentalist-type psychos" are a constant.
Like warts.
