[Cronos]

CC: How does this believe in predestination tie in evangelizing?

BL: Shh! Your intruding logic interferes with the delivery of the message. You know, the one meant to convince us to choose to believe that we can't choose to believe.

I suppose that somewhere, out there, there may a Calvinist who possesses enough faith in his spin-off religion to NOT try to convince people that there's no convincing people.

Hitting the nail on the head!! Calvinism believes that everything's already pre-willed by the great robot-maker in the sky, who has already pre-programmed every robot (us) to do good or evil and who has already marked each robot to go to everlasting torment or to heaven.

The robot can't do anything but this program (no free will) and at the end of time, the robot maker laughs at the robot who was programmed to do evil and says "you did the evil I programmed you to do, now burn, burn for all time"

[HarleyD]

I suppose that somewhere, out there, there may a Calvinist who possesses enough faith in his spin-off religion to NOT try to convince people that there's no convincing people.

Too bad Moses didn't try harder to reason with Pharaoh. It might have work instead of all those plagues.