[irishtenor]

Sir, please do not equate Calvinism with Islam. Calvinists worship the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Anybody with a sense of wisdom would know that. If you do not like Calvin, that is fine. That is your problem, not mine. Whatever your belief, I did not, nor will I make fun of it. If you want more information about what I believe, please ask, do not make assumptions.

[aruanan]

Anybody with a sense of wisdom would know that.

Calvin's theology in which all of God's nature is subordinate to God's will has been recognized for centuries as Muslim in nature. Given where Calvin got his start and the forbidden nature of books coming over the Pyrenees from Muslim-dominated Spain and how the intellectual upstarts of France who also sought to mount a challenge to Catholicism with its then-emphasis on the ability of the church to grant indulgences, it's no wonder they would be attracted to aspects of a theology which seemed to facilitate a deconstruction of an ecclesiology they regarded as corrupt and to restore a concept of a God who was truly in charge of his creation. This doesn't mean they weren't Christians. But it also doesn't mean that they didn't create for themselves intractable problems by Calvin's insistence on stretching out the Biblical revelation of God on the Procrustean bed of human (ie., Calvin's) reason. The result tells us much more about Calvin's mind that it does about God.