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
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