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To: CaspersGh0sts
When you read up on the liturgical history of Britain, it was once the single strongest Catholic tradition in Europe.

From the eighteenth century onward, Britain also experienced periodic Christian revivals led by evangelists such as John Wesley, founder of Methodism, William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army and Rodney "Gypsy" Smith. Besides recharging Christianity's batteries, these revivals may have contributed to limiting the appeal of Jacobinism, Bolshevism, and other pernicious ideologies among the British.

7 posted on 05/24/2008 1:50:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

“Britain also experienced periodic Christian revivals led by evangelists such as John Wesley, founder of Methodism, William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army and Rodney “Gypsy” Smith.”

And John Knox, as well. But of course.

” Besides recharging Christianity’s batteries, these revivals may have contributed to limiting the appeal of Jacobinism, Bolshevism, and other pernicious ideologies among the British.”

I have no doubt. The message of personal accountability found in Christianity is anti-thetical to a number of vile ideologises that you mentioned. The Churches I attended in California were often filled with Chinese immigrants who had fled the communist control of China, and Christianity remains a serious threat to the power structure of ChiComs. Time will tell....


8 posted on 05/24/2008 2:03:43 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Fiji Hill
"Britain also experienced periodic Christian revivals led by evangelists such as John Wesley, founder of Methodism,"

Actually we never would have heard of Wesley and there probably wouldn't be a Methodist church if not for a 20 year old evangelist named George Whitefield. He led the great awakening, the early 18th century revival the effects of which are still felt today.

10 posted on 05/24/2008 2:23:57 PM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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