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Thank you Wait And here's your shmoop du jour brought

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to you by the nineteen eighties In addition year shmoop

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du jour the eighties are also bringing you an unlimited

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supply of shoulder pads and hairspray The bottom and bulk

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costco Okay so here's the passage All right well the

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predominance of the religious right in the nineteen eighties was

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most similar to the developments in which of the following

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earlier periods and hear your potential answers are well shmoop

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follows the traditional belief that there are three things you

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shouldn't talk about in polite company religion politics and fight

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club And now that we've already mentioned all three of

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them in one video well we might as well dive

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right in We are allowed to talk about fight club

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right We're pretty sure we can but we did forget

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steak notes during the first meeting so you know well

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we'll figure out the whole fight club things mother time

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Christianity has always had a strong influence on american life

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but its effect on politics comes in waves amber waves

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of political game to be precise the nineteen eighties saw

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a rise in christian organizations seeking to lobby for laws

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and to rock the vote Whoever this wasn't the first

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time this happened in american history to answer the question

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we need to think hard about our knowledge about evangelical

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christianity in the united states just knowing about that preacher

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who claimed he could bench press two thousand pounds isn't

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gonna cut it The first choice we can nix is

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d the nineteen sixties well sixties or none for things

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like rock and roll protest ng and mankind finally making

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outer space it's personal playground of the nineteen sixties was

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a time when people started questioning their religious beliefs not

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injecting them into politics So this can't be our guy

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Next two goes the nineteen twenties While christian values played

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an important role in american life There was no boom

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of organizations promoting social conservatism That leaves us with the

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seventeen thirties in the eighteen forties which is tough because

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come on those were a long time ago I barely

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remember what we had for breakfast this morning Yeah well

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the seventeen thirties was a period known as the great

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awakening Why will the seventeen twenties were pretty boring but

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with no electricity no facebook no miniature golf you know

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come to think of it seventeen thirties weren't much better

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Okay but in all seriousness the great awakening was in

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evangelical surge that started in england and swept the american

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colonies It shared many features with the nineteen eighties family

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values powerful preachers like george whitfield A freaky fondness for

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spandex and you know stuff like that It was a

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time when people realized they could instill their spirituals values

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into the political process sounds like a potential answer but

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let's see what we remember about eighteen forties with the

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eighteen forties rolled around at the tail end of a

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period known as the second great awakening well the second

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great awakening was known for can't meetings which were large

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events or charismatic creatures would convert new members to various

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evangelical denominations Your conversion ceremonies were typically wedged between three

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o'clock likes women The six o'clock smores cook off This

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was the era where christianity broke off into more branches

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in america and the fire of the faith was beginning

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to cool down by the eighteen forties So we're going

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to send be packing and that means a is our

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correct answer the next time you're at a party and

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someone asked you what was similar about the nineteen eighties

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in the seventeen thirties you khun say surgeon evangelical values

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in american politics but maybe find some tamer friends to 00:03:26.475 --> [endTime] go party with Sounds like these guys go hard

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