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Message Subject Rockefellers
Poster Handle 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.



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