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[–] 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I am SO fucking tired of internet progressives blaming everything on 'Calvinism'

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Guys this is something started by chapo fans by way of Matt Christman. This is fully on this very community. This is fully spiderman pointing at spiderman.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Noted Chapo listener, Max Weber

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Max Weber's idea of the Protestant work ethic is not why people on tbe Internet use calvinism as a byword for bad actually.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    To be fair Calvin basically is at fault for the turn to material goods by American protestantism

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I just think all these theological arguments are stupid - whether it's Dawkins blaming everything on nebulous 'religion', or people blaming the middle east on shia/sunni tensions, or the supposed incompatibility of Judaism and Islam, or blaming America on 'Calvinism'. They are dumb explanations.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It reeks of "Christianity was awesome until Paul/Augustine/Constantine the Great/Leo IX/Martin Luther/John Calvin ruined Christianity forever."

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I did see someone here posf "Modern christianity is a perversion of the greatness that was the medieval Church" to some upvotes at one point. We get weird about religion

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