... there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the orthodox tame churches of Russia and of the Protestant princes. In an interregnum incommoded with an abundance of sleek parsons and sly priests it; was bard to realize what fires had once blazed in the heart of Christianity, and what fires, of political and religious passion might still ... blaze in the hearts of men. "This awful revolution," wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, "may be usefully ... applied to the useful instruction of the present age. It is the duty of a patriot to prefer and pr...

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... accentuated knowledge through human logic and reason, basing religion on the sciences, law, and mathematics, while the Great Awakening evoked greater emotional feeling, and joining all classes together, indoctrinating that all were sinners in God's eyes, without a differentiation in class. Prizing feeling over than thinking, and trusting the heart rather than the head, people in the Great Awakening relied mainly on their minister to encourage their ... religious beliefs, and no longer the Bible. The ministers took to more than just preaching to white folk, also spreading the message of ...

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