{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Los Angeles birthed Pentecostalism and America barely even notices that it has a new religion running free taking over...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/169071902478/", "html": "<p>Los Angeles birthed Pentecostalism and America barely even notices that it has a new religion running free taking over continents<br/></p><p>LA was a hot scene in the 20th Century that gave us the Foursquare Church, Objectivism, Scientology and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training\" target=\"_blank\">EST</a>, also The Source Family, The Manson Family, Tensegrity, Esalen, New Age cults, UFO cults, Nazi cults, Nazi UFO cults</p><p>That\u2019s how these things go, in waves like any other industry, Mormonism was only the most famous thing to come out of the Burnt-Over District in the Third Great Awakening</p><p>Christianity was only the most famous thing to come out of Jerusalem of the period, that\u2019s the deepest joke of Life of Brian, that it\u2019s not a joke<br/></p>"}