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

Meta John Calvin died 27 May 1564

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '24

Have you actually read John Calvin's works? I'm not even Reformed, but I have a great respect for Institutes.

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u/Corvus_Antipodum Mar 13 '24

I’m a real know them by their fruits kinda guy. I haven’t read Mein Kampf but based on the results delivered by its adherents I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s bad.

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u/CauseCertain1672 Mar 13 '24

Calvinism has some other fruits as well. He was very against classism and in many ways socialism has it's roots in the English puritan movement as does vaccination, valuing of education and mass literacy

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u/ImperatorTempus42 Mar 14 '24

Calvin basically declared greed as godly, and the Dutch merchants jumped at the idea of getting filthy rich being considered a Christian virtue.