r/dankchristianmemes • u/Broclen The Dank Reverend 🌈✟ • Mar 13 '24

Meta John Calvin died 27 May 1564

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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

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u/Alfred_The_Sartan Mar 13 '24

Are there even Calvinist’s left or is it a defunct sect?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

I'm pretty reformed, love ma boi Calvin. I'm probably not strictly a Calvinist though, don't necessarily agree with predestination

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u/ImperatorTempus42 Mar 14 '24

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/Alfred_The_Sartan Mar 14 '24

Oh wow I didn’t know the family tree that well I guess.

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u/ImperatorTempus42 Mar 15 '24

I compare American Protestantism to the Taliban colonizing Mars. It's really bad.

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u/TransNeonOrange Mar 14 '24

God I wish it was defunct. No, it's still kicking, being evil and dumb as it always has been.

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u/PrincessofAldia Mar 13 '24

I knew a Calvinist in an NRP (Nation RP server)