Santorum - Rightwing evangelicalism is the founding of our country

[RW_9]

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.

We seem to be agreeing here, with what you refer to as the "animistic primitivism" being what I refer to as charismatic.

Edit: Adding clarification. When I refer to evangelicalism, it is the same thing as pentecostalism - I just avoid that term because there are literal denominations that use it. It is nearly impossible to differentiate between charismatic, evangelical, pentecostal, and non-denominational these days. They are all varying degrees of pentecostal.