Protestantism

» Roger Saunders - Erata

In response to Erata posted by pink101:

The Great Awakening ABSOLUTELY WAS about how you became right with God BUT there was a natural outgrowth of this that made it a HUGE factor in the American Revolution.

This was the fact that religious authority became less a function of the church hierarchy and more of a personal relationship and responsibility to God alone.

This took away some of the power that the Church as an organization had over people's personal lives. This was a huge factor in the impetus that released people from their blind loyalty to a King as the anointed leader of God and gave spiritual permission to them to begin the process of political separation from great Britain.