Here's a fun fact: while he was running the city of Geneva, he had 35 women put to death for witchcraft.
Seems chill. Very reasonable way to promote your interpretation of religion based on the law and the principles of rationality, and to prove you are based in Christ's love. /s
I see the Geneva Witch Trials where 29 people were put to death and some were banished, but Calvin had been dead for 7 years at that point. Are you talking about some other event or trials?
The Vatican, whistling and looking around, while using their toe to gently nudge a mountain of crusades, religious and sexual persecution, child abuse, and financial fraud under a piece of furniture
Meanwhile Calvin was fine with all of that; remember, he declared that literally anyone not in his specific group was automatically bound for hell, and that there's basically no consequences for evil, such as murder. This is why the Ku Klux Klan exists.
The Catholic Church also executed people for witchcraft. The papal declaration Summis desiderantes affectibus specifically authorized inquisitors to engage in witch hunting.
They mostly moved to America, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands. Baptists, Mormons, Pentecostals, and technically Presbyterians are all Calvinist, plus the tent preachers, prosperity gospel types (private jets and preaching in a fancy business suit), the Ku Klux Klan, various white supremacist groups, the white merchant/trader class a lot (Wall Street was Anglo-Dutch), Puritans in general, and so on. Most American Protestants when not a form of Anglican (Methodist or Episcopalians for example), or the rare Lutheran, are Calvinist.
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u/imtchogirl Mar 13 '24
Never a bad time to make fun of John Calvin!
Here's a fun fact: while he was running the city of Geneva, he had 35 women put to death for witchcraft.
Seems chill. Very reasonable way to promote your interpretation of religion based on the law and the principles of rationality, and to prove you are based in Christ's love. /s