This was never more clear than when George Washington created The Continental Army. This directly went against the revolutionaries ideology. It required a personal sacrifice of freedom and liberty. However it was deemed acceptable by the revolutionaries on the grounds that you were sacrificing personal freedoms in hopes of acquiring more. It was a necessary evil in order to achieve the ends envisioned by revolutionaries. Religion also played an important role. God, in the eyes of the earliest revolutionaries, was on the side of liberty. This was certainly the mind set that aided in the triumph over our European counterparts. War, from the religious perspective of the revolutionaries before the Revolutionary War, was seen as a necessary evil. The suffering of the colonist under the controlling hand of the English government could be thought as much the same as the suffering of Jesus at the cross. The revolutionaries felt that it would be looked back upon war as a sacrifice for unrivaled freedom and democracy. It could even be looked at as a sacrifice for all countries under the control of a tyrannical government. The revolutionaries had there own ideas on independence as well. To them it was a
This was never more clear than when George Washington created The Continental Army. This directly went against the revolutionaries ideology. It required a personal sacrifice of freedom and liberty. However it was deemed acceptable by the revolutionaries on the grounds that you were sacrificing personal freedoms in hopes of acquiring more. It was a necessary evil in order to achieve the ends envisioned by revolutionaries. Religion also played an important role. God, in the eyes of the earliest revolutionaries, was on the side of liberty. This was certainly the mind set that aided in the triumph over our European counterparts. War, from the religious perspective of the revolutionaries before the Revolutionary War, was seen as a necessary evil. The suffering of the colonist under the controlling hand of the English government could be thought as much the same as the suffering of Jesus at the cross. The revolutionaries felt that it would be looked back upon war as a sacrifice for unrivaled freedom and democracy. It could even be looked at as a sacrifice for all countries under the control of a tyrannical government. The revolutionaries had there own ideas on independence as well. To them it was a