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To: SoFloFreeper

I prefer to refer to them as recreational Calvinists. For them, their theology is a game, and winning is the only option, even if it splits or explodes churches to bits.


3 posted on 03/14/2015 7:02:55 AM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk

I had two Calvinist coworkers who zeroed in on my being Catholic. It got to be fun; I ask them how Zwingli died (his smashed helmet is in a Swiss museum). They countered that the only true Christian martyrs were those put to death by the pre-Henry VIII Church in England.

Squaring predestination with the evangelizing of others was a little awkward for them. But the zeal of the new convert shown throughout. Churches with sermons less than three hours long weren’t worth attending, they maintained.

I put up a church calendar in my shop that featured classical paintings of the Madonna & Child. Drove them nuts.


8 posted on 03/14/2015 7:41:51 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel. My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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