Religious freedom only applied to Protestants. If you were a Catholic you had no place in society. Catholics in New Hampshire didn't even have the right to vote until after the Civil War.
Any Catholic priest who entered Calvinist Massachusetts during the 17th century was liable for death.
Perhaps I should clarify myself. Calvinism of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Calvinism was so abhorrent to its adherents that only the most zealous stayed. Areas of America and Europe that once had heavy Calvinist populations today are the most secular.
New England, France, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, etc.
Besides Puritan Massachusetts all I need to do is look how tolerant Oliver Cromwell and his ultra-Calvinist Roundheads were to the Catholics in England, Scotland and Ireland.
Jansenism, aka Catholc Calvinism, in part, occasioned the French Revolution as a reaction to it.
Fundamentalist Calvinism is tolerant, just as long as you are a Calvinist.
Fundamentalist Catholics aren't exactly friendly to non-Catholics. What was it that St. Cyprian said? Something like ex ecclesia nulla salus? Then there was Pope Bonifice, that there can be no salvation unless one is subject to the Pope who sits in the chair of St. Peter? Leaves all Protestants and Orthodox Christians in the cold.
Let's not pretend Calvinist fundamentalists have a corner on Christian intolerance. There are intolerant Calvinists, intolerant Baptists, intolerant Catholics, and intolerant Plymouth Brethren. Who gives a flying leap what the narrow-minded ignorants think?
The question is much more narrow - what role did God play in predestination. Whether Calvinists have been over-excited in the past is irrelevant to that question, but only serves to distract from a close read of the exegesis of the Scriptures.
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Be ashamed!
Be very ashamed!!!