Second Great Awakening swept through America?s Protestant Churches I. Reviving Religion Regular attendance to church was common- Calvinists rigor was leaving the churches Rationalist ideas from the French Rev. Era and Thomas Paine?s The Age of Reason declaring churches were monopolies in profit and power Paine promoted Deism- didn?t believe in the bible rather science and reason and believed some Supreme Being created a knowable universe- helped branch Unitarian faith