Jesus met George Floyd at Echo Park Lake today, just around the corner from Angelus Temple of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, built for America's very first celebrity evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson. She was a strong supporter of William Jennings Bryan during the 1925 Scopes Trial. Bryan and McPherson had worked together in the Angelus Temple and believed Darwinism had undermined students' morality. They both wanted to stop people from teaching that nonsense. She sent...
more »Jesus met George Floyd at Echo Park Lake today, just around the corner from Angelus Temple of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, built for America's very first celebrity evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson. She was a strong supporter of William Jennings Bryan during the 1925 Scopes Trial. Bryan and McPherson had worked together in the Angelus Temple and believed Darwinism had undermined students' morality. They both wanted to stop people from teaching that nonsense. She sent Bryan a telegram saying all ten thousand members of her Angelus temple and her millions of radio church members "send grateful appreciation of your lion-hearted championship of the Bible against evolution and throw our hats in the ring with you." And she organized "an all-night prayer service, a massive church meeting preceded by a Bible parade through Los Angeles." Good times! And now on the same corner there was this. But the lotus blossoms and ducks and geese make up for all the oddity here. ~ Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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