... The cultural and social vortex created by the founders of Passion Christian Conferences precipitates an insincere form of worship and a false religious movement. Osvaldo F. Pardo's The Origins of Mexican Catholicism and Oppenheimer's Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture will be used to analyze the forces that shape the origins and administration of the ... inherently leads to vast discrepancies in the biblical message and the doctrines delivered to the Passion audience. Sermons often focus on delivering messages that cater to what the youth want to h...

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... 's continuing hard-money, antibank campaigns offended more conservative men "the so-called Bank Democrats "who, whatever their displeasure with the Second Bank of the United States, did not want to see the entire paper money credit system dramatically curtailed. The oppositionist core, however, came from a cross-class coalition, strongest in rapidly commercializing areas, that viewed the market revolution as ... free labor. It would take until the 1850s before these contradictions fully unraveled the Jacksonian coalition. But as early as the mid-1840s, during the debates over Texas annex...

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