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==Legacy==

==Legacy==

The Woodstock festival consisted of [[rock and roll]], fornication and drugs, and a denial of reality, as well as a search for it, and it become an icon of the 1960s [[hippie]] counterculture. Rock historian Pete Fornatale sees the festival, among other things, "as a massive communion ceremony featuring drugs as sacramental substances" and  states, "I wanted to make the case that Woodstock was a spiritual experience".<ref>Steve Rabey, ''40 years later Woodstock..'', Religion News Service, 2009</ref>  Most all of those who partook in the communal-type atmosphere of Woodstock soon became part of the culture it was presented as an alternative to, with many activists becoming entrepreneurs, though many went on to promote from within the Establishment the negative [[liberal]] aspects of the ideology which was behind much of Woodstock, with its deleterious effects.<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html Revealing Statistics: America in Decline]</ref><ref>http://www.theignorantfishermen.com/2009/08/40-years-after-woodstock-woodstock.html</ref> Many who were searching for reality, rather than denying it, became involved in the [[Jesus people movement]],<ref>http://www.one-way.org/jesusmovement/</ref> which resulted in large festivals of its own.<ref>Time, ''Religion: The Jesus Woodstock'' (Expo '72) Monday, Jun. 26, 1972</ref><ref>http://home.att.net/~w.tomtschik/BSindex.html</ref>

The Woodstock festival consisted of [[rock and roll]], fornication and drugs, and a denial of reality, as well as a search for it, and it become an icon of the 1960s [[hippie]] counterculture. Rock historian Pete Fornatale sees the festival, among other things, "as a massive communion ceremony featuring drugs as sacramental substances" and  states, "I wanted to make the case that Woodstock was a spiritual experience".<ref>Steve Rabey, ''40 years later Woodstock..'', Religion News Service, 2009</ref>  Most all of those who partook in the communal-type atmosphere of Woodstock soon became part of the culture it was presented as an alternative to, with many activists becoming entrepreneurs, though many went on to promote from within the Establishment the negative [[liberal]] aspects of the ideology which was behind much of Woodstock, with its deleterious effects.<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html Revealing Statistics: America in Decline]</ref><ref>http://www.theignorantfishermen.com/2009/08/40-years-after-woodstock-woodstock.html</ref> Many who were searching for reality, rather than denying it, became involved in the [[Jesus Movement|Jesus people movement]],<ref>http://www.one-way.org/jesusmovement/</ref> which resulted in large festivals of its own.<ref>Time, ''Religion: The Jesus Woodstock'' (Expo '72) Monday, Jun. 26, 1972</ref><ref>http://home.att.net/~w.tomtschik/BSindex.html</ref>

==See also==

==See also==