spineless pinko's update

[kelley]

At 01:15 PM 2/15/01 -0500, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
>       During the American Revolution when a lot of
>the Founding Fathers were Enlightenment influenced
>Deists.  This followed the First Great Awakening in
>the early 1700s which was a period of fundamentalist
>frenzy.  Historians of religion label the current phase
>as the fourth round of this lunacy.
>Barkley Rosser

they also argue that both the first and second great awakenings were the 
source of organizational forms that provided the resources upon which the 
social movements formed, the second was the abolition movement.

been a long time since i read that material tho, so perhaps someone else 
has some insight.

kelley