As the twentieth century brought the most dramatic economic, social and cultural change, it was evident that the largest religious movements continued to become more affluent. Moreover, by the 1930s the white Baptist churches had twice as few members as the black Baptists, which is an interesting fact to note. Furthermore, no significant damage was done to the major denominations by the Great Depression of the 1930s as they continued to grow both in revenue and membership. The Great Depression and later on World War II brought a number of significant changes, one of which affected significantly both whites and blacks – it was the twilights of the sharecropping system, whose impact on the nation’s social system can be said to be revolutionary. It is important to realize that both blacks and whites called for termination to racial injustice, as the horrors of World War II only worsened the tragedy arising from racial hatred. This meant a lot of learned people would be required in the fight for end of racial segregation, so in Atlanta, for instance, the services of the Atlanta Translation Centers were some of the most sought after, as they were expected to instruct the church members into being successful in international communication.

Religion also played an important role in shaping up the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s as maintaining the social order specifically designed by God was the excuse used by both supporters and opponents. On top of that, in the middle of the 20th century when the U.S. was experiencing its greatest moral struggle, neither black nor white churches had the capacity to provide the necessary moral leadership. Eventually, after lots of blood was shed and terror was exercised the days of racial injustice seemed to have ended as the principle of Christian equality won. As mentioned earlier the evangelical Protestants are the largest religious group, but there were also members of non-evangelical religious groups that represented other belief systems – Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Mormons. One of the reasons was the millions of immigrants who entered the country with most of them coming from Europe, and the place where they first set foot on the American continent was most often New York. As most of them had come to search for happiness without knowing the language the had to be assisted in order to get integrated into the new world and the Chicago Translation Services Association were the best in this business. Therefore, along with their language the immigrants also brought their religion as the largest groups were Jewish and Catholics. Being frequently persecuted these groups felt outsiders in their own land, which is why they left it in order to search for happiness in a strange land.

Non-conformist by nature, the movement of the Mormons had little or no success in challenging the established racial practices. Houston was one of the cities where in the 1960s some African-American activists took interest in Islam and established a Nation of Islam group. The Houston Translation Servicess Cooperative were instrumental in translating the Koran and other significant Islamic works, which should be used as a basis for the introduction of the new members to the churches. There has been a great expansion of the fundamentalist churches since the 1970s, and the cultural, economic and social changes played a major role in the process. Some of the debates that have been inspired by those churches are those of homosexuality, public prayer at school and abortion, but at the dawn of the 21st century the dominating religion in the nation’s life is still evangelical Christianity.

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