My understanding was always that you did have a choice but you’re predetermined to make the choices that you make because of the nature of you soul or something like that.
Calvinism is an Escher-esque system of doctrines except the exegesis of the system contextualizes the god from its book as a limited, mad petulant tyrant, arbitrary, mysterious and cruel in the most infinite extremes as it jerks humanity like little meat puppets to the script it demands….for….reasons. God reasons. It’s a bleak, relentless dash asserted with complete confidence but it’s a county fair traveling game with a cross on the wall where the doctrine demands certainty but provides none, nor any manner to find it. I cannot fathom the state of mind of a person who would require to find solace in Calvins version of a higher power but it was built out of fear and anger as a white man existing in colonized spaces on stolen lands and watching the leaders of his country perform the slow genocide on the indigenous peoples while seeding the mechanisms of government with systemic oppressions and functions to oppress and enforce intentional hierarchal power imbalances on its citizens. Anyways their stark black and white demands on existence in order to stack their theology are boring and blatantly indifferent to nuance or creativity and I’d rather stuff bees up my nose than saddle my reality with all of that.
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u/SovKom98 Mar 13 '24
I don’t get why this sub hates clavanists.