So it's not "you must have a faith 'purified' of tradition and canon outside of scripture to allow for diversity."
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
And there are, of course, some Protestant traditions with a more rigorous intellectual backing; Presbyterianism has a fairly strong intellectual component as opposed to charismatics.
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Okay but the evangelicals ARE Presbyterians, that's the lineage that they come from, charismatics are a reaction against that original lineage (Scottish Presbyterians -> English Presbyterians -> the Puritan movement that led to the English Civil War -> the Mayflower Pilgrims)
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Charismatics have a far greater influence on modern Evangelicals than the intellectual tradition, though.
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"Charismatics" per se didn't exist until the 1960s (and the Pentecostal movement they derive from didn't exist until the 1900s) and they're still highly controversial among self-IDed evangelicals as a whole, so that's not really fair
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Conceded. Would you allow for it as an outgrowth of the American Great Awakening movements and their attendant iconoclastic populist fervor?
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See - I think I go in the other direction. There are occasionally some gestures toward the American Great Awakenings, and the styles can overlap a bit. But those were generally MUCH less reactionary.
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They gave rise to abolitionist movements (as well as temperance, to be fair, it's not an unblemished legacy).
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One of the easiest demonstrations of the fact that "the political spectrum" isn't this stable thing across history is that in the late 19th century it was, like, *impossible* not to be an abolitionist, civil rights activist, feminist, pacifist, etc and not be pro-temperance
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Alcoholism was, to be fair here, a much bigger crisis than it is now. It's probably closer to the opiate crisis.
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Even then we don't talk about the opioid crisis quite the same way (and this is a tension within left activism on the topic, sure) We talk about overprescription, punishing drug companies for misleading labels But it's increasingly rare for people on the left to be "anti-drug"
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Yeah - maybe more applicable is the general left-wing treatment of cigarettes.
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