I think the prayer in school thing did not have a great impact until the 1960s “cultural revolution”, then its impact was felt in the lack of daily counter to that, and the fact that the media had already by indoctrinated though their college education to align itself with “protests” as if merely to protest made your protest morally correct.
The “culutural recvlution” was made to order for getting “the youth” behind the totally Left inspired and run “antiwar” movement - I saw this even in the Christian ministries whose schools of theology had already trained the 1960s clerical class in the Leftist bending of the Gospel message.
The rest in a good part of Christendom was down hill from then on, other than the the more fundamentalist churches and demominations rejection of all that. The great divide between “church goers” and continued Gospel believers had begun, as the Book of Revelation said it would.
“I think the prayer in school thing did not have a great impact until the 1960s “cultural revolution”
I believe the cultural revolution started in the 1950’s if not sooner. I mentioned prayer in school but it was supported by our arts like Little Richard singing:
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball, whoo
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball
Many feel that this type of message constituted a moral corruption and challenged the current outlook on society. And we can all remember that Elvis was more famous for his lower body than his vocal chords.
In the art world Modernism was the primary artistic style at the time, and was viewed as a form of art with no standard guidelines that dictated the practice. Modernist Artists discarded conventional methods of depicting perspective, color and composition to portray their own visions. Their attitudes were reinforced through scientific discovers that made them question the solidity of the ‘real’ world and the reliability of perception.
Researchers have identified several general clusters of topics that help describe the way in which moral panics operate and the impact they have. Some of the more common modern clusters identified are: child abuse, drugs and alcohol, immigration, media technologies, and street crime.
And of course we couldn’t leave out films of the 1950’s even with the Hayes commission in action. Such films as High School Hellcats, Reform School Girl, The Immoral Mrs. Teas, Teaserama, Revenge of the Virgins, Girl Gang, and the Lonely Sex came out in the 1950’s and in some cases were listed as coming of age and/or culture and society.
And most of this was aimed at the youth so that by the time they reached the 1960’s, they were well indoctrinated in anything that deviates from the norm. It was alive and kicking in the 60’s, but it had to be sculpted first. And that’s what I meant.
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