... literally true. A key point in the fundamentalist doctrine was that creationism (the idea that God had created the universe in seven days, as stated in the book of Genesis) explained the origin of all life. Fundamentalists blamed the liberal views of modernists for causing a decline in morals. Modernists contracted the same views. Ever sense the Great awakening of the early 1700s, there had been ... periodic religious revivals in America. Revivalists of the 1920s preached a fundamentalists message but did so for the first time making full use of the new instrument of mass communication, ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... this well devised plan into action. He gathered about forty men from various groups, including two men from the original Klan and the speaker of the Georgia legislature. They all agreed to found the order and Simmons picked the night before Thanksgiving for the formal ceremonies. This awakening of the Klan was performed on Stone Mountain, a granite slab sixteen miles outside of Atlanta. Simmons had set up a cross ... a wreath below it with the KKK cross in the center, my personal favorite), "The original boyz in the hood, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan-(in the background there are 3 burnin...

• Word Count: 5906
• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School