This whole period that saw the birth of the Millerite movement,...

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    This whole period that saw the birth of the Millerite movement, Jehovah Witness, Mormons, Seventh day Adventists and dozens of minor sects of Christianity form in the US in particular is very interesting. They were deeply influenced by Baptists, especially the Southern Baptists, Masonic rituals, organisational structure and overtones, the Imperial culture of their nation the US, the White Supremacy they believed to have been divinely gifted upon them by G.d to rule and lord over the coloured races and profound sense of grief, The Great Disappointment, when Jesus failed to appear in 1844 as they all expected.

    They then built religious beliefs from the ashes of this profound and deeply troubling failure of Jesus to return. In doing so they injected aspiration rather than truth into the formation of purely manmade religions and searched in vain for any means they could find to differentiate themselves from all that had existed before that time, including a Bible rewrite, Book of Mormon, JW bible, etc.
 
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