RE: Santorum - Rightwing evangelicalism is the founding of our country
February 6, 2012 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2012 at 1:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 6, 2012 at 1:29 pm)RW_9 Wrote: Evangelical/non-denom/charismatic protestantism wasn't even invented until the 20th century. If all these modern american christians were to time travel back to their beloved ancestors and try to have a modern church service, they would be deemed heretics.
I would absolutely love to see a modern christian try to speak in tongues and get slain in the spirit around the Puritans. There would be another whole witch trial with hangings.
Actually, evangelical christianity did date to before 1776, and had multiple origins in Europe, Britain and American colonies. Charlette Bronte satirized evengliscalism in the classic novel Jane Eyre in 1840s. Revivalist song and dancer ignorancefests had been a charateristic of American revivalism movements in 18th and 19th century.
Current form of chrismatic christianity, with its animistic primitivism, dates to early 20th century Los Angeles. Simon Winchester, in his book the A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 , makes the case that the roots of pentacostalism lies in the end-of-world panic amongst the very superstitious uneducated refuges from the San Francisco Earthquake.
