Point Paglia.The Second Great Awakening (1800–1830s) was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings.wikipedia
-For three days and well past midnight, a crowd estimated to be between twenty and thirty thousand sang and shouted with a great noise that was heard for miles around. Worshippers transported by extreme emotion jerked, writhed, fell to the ground in convulsions or went catatonic. This Kentucky Revival, called the Second Great Awakening, spread through the inland regions of the South and eventually reached western Pennsylvania. But the movement never flourished in the North because of its harsher weather.Camille Paglia/Arion
The mindlessness of that first sentence in the wikipedia entry is what a lot of the rejecting criticism of that and other online resources comes out of. That's zombie-cult gibberish masquerading as speech. People with minds like the one that wrote that shouldn't have the access or the ability to be destinations on wikipedia. But how to fix that?
