yeah the later 19C and pre-atomic 20C is what's on my mind but worth noting the abolitionists were heeeeeavily religiously motivated contrast lincoln's biblically-inflected language with the hazy deism of founder rhetoric sometime btwhttps://twitter.com/ClwnPrncCharlie/status/1391309404016889857 …
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hmmm some taxonomy has this as the Third Great Awakening rather than the Second. ok surehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Great_Awakening …
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someone doing a religious history of America might contribute by tracking Great Awakenings over time. here we have One, Two, and Three; maybe we peg the 60s as a Fourth and the current Awokening as a Fifth
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so one could say identify commonalities in their rises, reigns, falls; what secular ages separate Awakenings; and so on implications for foreign policy are apparent if one reads the history of the role of missionaries in US diplomacy
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america just be like this. its the national character. read our actual national anthem if you doubt its true.pic.twitter.com/7NZf42ggGJ
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https://youtu.be/3RBOBFTnW04 unhinged performance by Judy garland after Kennedy’s death I’ve always thought this song and sacred harp music gets at the cosmic core of the American spirit
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No! You are not born to die! You are born to live! No hope for this America, is there?
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and look what happened to britain!
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We are all born to die, better to acknowledge it and use the liberty that that recognition brings.
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