Methodist leader equates U.S. flag to swastika (Mark Toolie on the job)

I agree with what you said, except for the “ethnic Calvinism” part. John Calvin was not a liberal, as we know liberals today. He was what we would call a conservative today. And by the way, he was patriotic. He believed in free enterprise and representative government, which our country was founded on. It might interest you to know that his followers, the Presbyterians, played a major role in the American Revolution and the founding of America.

I am afraid you completely misunderstood my meaning. My use of the word "Calvinism" was only an analogy and was not intended in the least to imply that John Calvin was a liberal.

In Calvinism there are the elect and the reprobate. In Hegelianism there is the "thesis" and the "antithesis." That's as far as my analogy went.

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