I take it that you are not actually a Calvinist.
Calvinism is decidedly the most non-intellectual of the faiths in this world...it’s on par with Mormonism and Islam as childlike in its construction.
LOL, your ignorance is showing !
A few famous Theologians
C. J. Mahaney
Carl F. H. Henry
Charles Spurgeon
Don Carson
James Petigru Boyce
James White (theologian)
John F. MacArthur
John Gill (theologian)
John L. Dagg
John Piper (theologian)
Joshua Harris
Leonhard Euler
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Wayne Grudem
William Carey
A Founding Father who was certainly a Calvinist was William Livingston, a delegate from New Jersey to the Constitutional Convention and a signer of the U.S. Constitution. William Livingston was a Presbyterian, but he strongly identified with Calvinism and an important part of his career involved his representing Calvinist causes (often in opposition to Anglicans) in New Jersey politics.
How many of the other Founding Fathers could probably be classified as Calvinists, based on their denominational affiliation? A lot. Of the 165 different men who were signers of Declaration of Independence, signers of the U.S. Constitution, or who were Senators or Representatives in the First Federal Congress, 21 were Congregationalists (13%), 20 were Presbyterians (12%), 5 were Dutch Reformed or German Reformed (3%) and 1 was a Huguenot. If these individuals whose denominations were officially Calvinist are added to Fisher Ames, then one can count at least 48 (29%) of the Founding Fathers as Calvinists.
It was not until the 1800s that Calvinism began to be more fully expunged from Christian thought in America. Numerous influential American religious founders and theologians soundly rejected Calvinism, including Barton W. Stone, John Mulkey, Alexander Campbell, Joseph Smith Jr., Walter Scott, Sydney Rigdon, James Relly, and Neal Punt. Today Calvinism remains an influential part of many Protestant denominations, but its significance has waned. Most Americans of all denominations are solidly non-Calvinist in their religious beliefs and general outlook.
Sources: “Representatives Elected to the United States Congress: The 1st Federal Congress of the United States of America (1789-1791)” in “Religion in the United States Government” section of “World Information” website (http://www.bizforum.org/FFR-Congress.htm); “Signers of the Declaration of Independence - July 4th, 1776” in “Religion in the United States Government” section of “World Information” website (http://www.bizforum.org/FFR-DoI.htm); “Signers of the Constitution of the United States of America” in “Religion in the United States Government” section of “World Information” website (http://www.bizforum.org/FFR.htm); “Senators Elected to the United States Senate: The 1st Federal Congress of the United States of America (1789-1791)” in “Religion in the United States Government” section of “World Information” website (http://www.bizforum.org/FFR-Senate.htm); viewed 8 July 2005
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agreed
As opposed to the intellectual maturity of such a ridiculous comment?
Please. There's a distinction between something being intellectually stimulating and something requiring mental gymnastics. Calvinism has no shortage of the former. Your posts seem to stem from the latter.
When you're ready to stop chucking batteries from the sidelines and get in the game, feel free to grab a helmet and take the field (unless of course you're the non-helmet type).