Catholicism is the thinking man’s Christianity. Calvinism is the lazy man’s Christianity.
I find it interesting that virtually all of the Catholic to Protestant conversion stories were ones rooted in emotional reactions to a misunderstanding of the Catholic teaching on grace.
That was true for Martin Luther and individuals like the one in the article.
If salvation is an eternal thing that you can’t lose through laxity or spiritual laziness, then who wouldn’t want to find the path of least resistance?
Calvinism selectively cherrypicks verses to fit its theory while ignoring those that object to it.
What objectively on the basis of scripure alone makes the Calvinists right and the Arminians or Lutherans wrong?
You are completely correct. Conversions of poorly catechized Catholics to protestantism all center around emotion. Every last one of them.
My mother is a devout Polish Catholic woman who married my Calvinist father in 1954. Eventually, after 50years of marriage he converted to Catholicism after intense study and reflection. Suffice it to say, he had a conversion experience, and God led him there through his (my father’s)intellect. He’s the smartest man I know and finally came to his senses regarding the Church founded by Jesus Christ.
Thankfully, my siblings and I were raised as Catholics and had a mother who instructed us in the nuances of the faith.
Your rhetorical question: “If salvation is an eternal thing that you can’t lose through laxity or spiritual laziness, then who wouldn’t want to find the path of least resistance?” is succinct and brilliant.
Your religion is just as guilty and even more so...
A strange boast from someone who claims to admire the non-rational, mystical tradition of the Easterns.
How do all those illiterate Guatemalan peasants get the smarts to belong to this exclusive intellectuals' church? Do they just have to swear they believe in evolution or something?