[Agamemnon]

He's also a Calvinist.

That statement is as much of a lie as is his calling himself a Christian is.

But to your implicit "guilt-by association" slam at Calvinists, I'll just say, "So what?" Many of our nation's Founders were Calvinists, and Calvinism is in part at the foundational philosophical core of a religious Reformation ("Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - delivered by famous "New Light" Calvinist minister Jonathan Edwards) that eventually inspired and led to the political Reformation known as the United States.

You might want to start employing some substantive critical thinking skills to whatever sources you consult for information on these kinds of topics before you choose to post so carelessly.

[Fred Hayek]

I was not justifying Fred Phelps views, or even associating it with what would be regarded as what most consider a Biblically sound application of Calvinism. Thus my use of the term “extreme off the rails”, as in divorced from any Biblical principal (and opposed to what Calvin, Knox, etc., had written). If Phelps indeed calls himself a Calvinism, it is a perversion of even hyper-Calvinism. The kind where one believes that there is no point in spreading the Gospel, thus my comparison with Harold Camping, who believes that the Holy Spirit has departed form the Church and there will be no more people saved. Do the Phelps Phreaks spread the Good News as Christ commanded? No, they just sneer “You’re going to hell”.