Calvinism is akin to mind poison. It inverts the principals of free will to guided will, making the assumption you can never be in control of anything. Because everything is under the control of God, salvation is granted to you. That job promotion? Wasn't you, or hard work, it was God. That cultural decline leading to all out collapse? God did it. It removes any sense of self and puts it back onto God. If you did something wrong, it was good because it's in God's plan. And since God's plan is perfect, you can go die in a hole for not understanding it. If you have no free will, everything is pre determined, and everything you do, have done, or ever will do has already been planned out for you.
This line of thinking is what has lead to the catastrophic universalism and appeal to apathy in the current church and believers. Let your society go to complete shit, because that's what God wants. Let migrants kill and murder whoever they want, and let your politicians rob you blind because trust the plan. It tricks the believer into thinking apathy and complete destruction of society is a good thing, whilst upholding any kind of moral or just law is verboten.
It leads to absolutely awful and one sided arguments that should never be. Get raped and are now pregnant? Forgive your rapist, and keep the baby. I've had believers openly tell me to force myself back into shitty situations because i was too harsh on the other person. I even had one go out of their way to NOT turn someone in who was embezzling tons of cash and committing fraud. Imagine someone telling you to go out of your way to accomodate criminals. This was at around the same time I started doing a much deeper study into the scriptures.
And this is a big problem, because this line of thinking is what turns a lot of people away from modern day Christianity. It's not the faith in God that people don't like, it's the asinine idea that the only way to please God is to throw away your country, throw out your heritage, throw out your ideals, and replace it with feel good virtue signalling nonsense. Rapists and child molesters belong in a wood chipper. They do not belong in a civilized society.
The thing is most people I know who are racially aware are very believing in God. They believe in the spiritual realm, and the concept of heaven, hell, evil, and good. Heck I would say those people have a much better understanding of who God is, than most sunday school christians.
A lot of times I feel like im hiding my power level at church meetings. I know the questions, and people are very happy by the answers I give. BUT if i deviate from the standard boilerplate questions, good luck getting any meaningful answers back.
heytheremyfriends 0 points 1.6 years ago
My problem is as such, most factions of the church are anti calvinist and have a very distorted view of what it is, and how it works. It feels like every christian group is too busy fighting each other