Reply #2: Actually, the true "Revival" originally had a much deeper meaning...

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It contained within it civic responsibility.

Many of these "fundamentalists" today ( and there are those who have kept the original founders concepts), have strayed far from their roots.

Here's a fact you may enjoy.... did you know that the original "altar call" was established by a fundamentalist abolitionist who would "signup" all those who came down to the altar into the abolitionist cause?

Here's a way to REALLY blow your brother's mind... take the time to read Jim Wallis' The Great Awakening, and learn these roots, and talk to him about this the next time you see him. Jim Wallis will give you so many facts and thoughts to get your brother's mind going, that you may find him actually begin to question the "religion" that he is practicing.