The Role Of Religion In The 1920's
In the 1920's, America was changing very culturally diverse as a result of many different individuals from totally different areas living within the same country. Furthermore as cultural diversity there was conjointly religious diversity and though the majority of faith in America were Christians different denominations of faith were more and more common as time went on. The concept that the faith wasn't as necessary as it used to be became rather common. Church attendance was drastically falling and Christian evangelicalism became a hot space for several media stars like Billy Sunday and Aimee McPherson to gain millions. New techniques were introduced to draw individuals to church. Aimee McPherson was a radio preacher. She made Christianity
less alarming for the population and talked about an Omni benevolence God as opposed the wrath of hell. Christian fundamentalist groups like W.A.S.P still believed in strict protestant, moral behaviour and refused to simply accept much of the new way of life and new discoveries and some theories and discoveries that were around. Several didn't settle for philosophies like the theory of evolution and in six states across America's Bible belt, schools were banned from teaching these new ideas. But one man, John Scopes went against this and schooled the theory in his lessons and this resulted with the monkey trials, within which Scopes was placed on trial and therefore the theory of evolution was place up against the theory of creation. This created intolerance across America. Scopes was found guilty, that proved to the world that America was still impatient of different people's attitudes and that they didn't accept change. Faith and God were still a very important part of their lives although they were a really developed country. However, not everybody in America agreed with this intolerance. Source E indicates that there were a lot of tolerant and liberal Americans that disagreed with those basic Christians. The source makes fun of William Jennings Bryan (the man who was responsible for defending those six states that outlawed the teachings of evolution) by suggesting individuals like him were teaching American children to not think, "Thou shall not think" is a clever play on the Ten Commandments that are seen within the bible.
less alarming for the population and talked about an Omni benevolence God as opposed the wrath of hell. Christian fundamentalist groups like W.A.S.P still believed in strict protestant, moral behaviour and refused to simply accept much of the new way of life and new discoveries and some theories and discoveries that were around. Several didn't settle for philosophies like the theory of evolution and in six states across America's Bible belt, schools were banned from teaching these new ideas. But one man, John Scopes went against this and schooled the theory in his lessons and this resulted with the monkey trials, within which Scopes was placed on trial and therefore the theory of evolution was place up against the theory of creation. This created intolerance across America. Scopes was found guilty, that proved to the world that America was still impatient of different people's attitudes and that they didn't accept change. Faith and God were still a very important part of their lives although they were a really developed country. However, not everybody in America agreed with this intolerance. Source E indicates that there were a lot of tolerant and liberal Americans that disagreed with those basic Christians. The source makes fun of William Jennings Bryan (the man who was responsible for defending those six states that outlawed the teachings of evolution) by suggesting individuals like him were teaching American children to not think, "Thou shall not think" is a clever play on the Ten Commandments that are seen within the bible.