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Rockefellers
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CHRIST |
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THE KEY TO OIL: BAPTISTS
'THE SAGA OF HIS MONUMENTAL BUSINESS FEATS IS INSEPARABLE
FROM THE FIRE-AND-BRIMSTONE ATMOSPHERE THAT ENGULFED THE
STATE'
'THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION DIDN'T FLOURISH UNTIL THE SO
CALLED GREAT AWAKENING THAT BEGAN AROUND 1739 (JDR
BORN 100 YEARS LATER IN 1839). THIS UPSURGE IN RELIGIOUS
FERVOR GATHERED FORCE FOLLOWING THE TOUR OF THE EASTERN
SEABOARD BY THE CHARISMATIC ENGLISH METHODIST EVANGELICAL
GEORGE WHITEFIELD'
'IN OPEN FIELDS AMID MUCH WEEPING, SHRIEKING, FAINTING,
AND GUILTY WRITHING ON THE GROUND, MASSES OF PEOPLE
WERE CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. THIS PERIOD OF RABID
EMOTION SPURRED FANTASTIC GROWTH AMONG BAPTISTS WHO
BELIVED IN VOLUNTARY IMMERSION'
'A SECOND GREAT AWAKENING AROUSED NEW-ENGLAND AND THE
MID-ATLANTIC STATES TO A NEW PITCH OF RELIGIOUS FERVOR
FROM 1800 TO THE LATE 1830s. THIS PROTRACTED MOVEMENT
PEAKED AROUND 1830, WHEN THE REVIVAL FIRES BLAZED SO
HOTLY THAT ROCHESTER AND OTHER SECTIONS OF UPSTATE
NEW YORK AND OHIO WERE DUBBED THE BURNED-OVER DISTRICT.
CLEARLY THERE IS MUCH OIL IMAGERY. THIS IS ANOTHER TAKE
ON BURNING MAN, MENTIONED IN MY MOVIES A DOORWAY TO REALITY
THREAD.
CHRIST
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