March 30

Unitarianism Deism is the opposite of Calvinism. Boston Liberalism tears down traditional Christianity. It is going to make salvation your choice. The spokesman or new Christianity is William Channing. Universalism is for poor people, it says god it to good to damn people. Uniteriasm is for the rich, it says man is to good to be damned. Alexis de Tocquerville Sees all of America there is too see at the current time. •He says Americans are most religious •Americans have mixed democracy with religion. Camp Meeting Revival Backwards movement says everyone is equal and you have newer denominations. Circuit Riders are ministers who convert people. Charles D Finney Becomes president of Oberlin College. Mormon Trek Joseph Smith. Plural Marriage, no original sin. They migrate from New York to Ohio. John Smith goes crazy and breaks there printing press. While in jail he is murdered. Briggim Young replaces Smith. Smith claimed to have found and translated The Book of Mormon by divine revelation. It tells the story of a group of Hebrews who migrated to America c. 600 bc and is taken as scriptural alongside the Bible. The Mormons came into conflict with the U.S. government over their practice of polygamy (officially abandoned in 1890) and moved their headquarters from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847 under Smith's successor, Brigham Young. Mormon doctrine emphasizes tithing, missionary work, and the Second Coming of Christ.