Religious Change

     After reading this section of chapter ten, I noticed that different denominations were beginning to grow and new denominations were forming. Methodist specifically, grew the most and was by far the most popular. American's began seeing calvinism as "too pessimistic". Members began to take consequences for their actions. Radical revivalists began appealing to worshippers heart and emotions so they would believe what they were teaching. Religion back then almost seemed like competitive. Everybody wanted everybody to believe what they believed, which in some ways it is still like that today. I believe we aren't as serious about religion as they were back then. Here religion was what they lived for. Now religion is just something we sometimes live by and other times we just sit it aside and will worry about it later. Lyman Beecher appealed to young people by "adopting a less orthodox approach to Calvinist doctrine." Confederations lists were required to have a degree to preach whereas other denominations believed you were called on to preach. New denominations were formed because certain men believed that God spoke to them telling to establish new churches. As the United States began to grow a lot of change was happening and revivalism helped cope with these changes. The Second Great Awakening caused  many new denominations to form and gave us so many choices on what to believe.