Calvin Was Right

Okay, those stupid Ists don’t understand how the people in Y.O. were completely different than the people we now see.  Those old-timey people in Ye Olde were so backwards!  They were always doing weird stuff and thinking weird, stupid things, and…!  

Mainstream attitudes about Y.O. are such.  But, what most people don’t understand is that the crazy stuff that they deal with every day is just more of that.  It is the same thing.  What most people now think of as “Christianity” is not old-fashioned, but rather how most White people now act: most White people, and still a sizable quantity of current Jesusians, act in support of universality.  The ridiculous philosophy of egalitarianism is Christianity.  With supreme irony, most current Jesusians see the ridiculousness of current universalisms but still think a universalist opposes those things.  

The deception of supporting a philosophy of rejecting the world of which you are yourself part, saying you believe things for which there is never evidence, and everyone being the same is exactly the bad things you have recognized.  Making it seem as though believing in a non-evidenced, preference-based thought that there is a S.R. is distinct from non-evidenced, preference-based sexual being ("gender ideology").  Differently put, having "faith" in a savior is the same thing as believing that your sexual identity is formed via preference rather than trillions of chromosomes.  Believing in S.R. is very much this same thing; making Christianity be seen as “about Jesus” is now considered a triumph.  Not saying the bad things that would offend everyone; being smart enough to demonstrate you have some education; it’s that.  It is Christianity to avoid saying, implying, or doing certain un-P.C., rude, lawsuit-inspiring, etc., things. 

C.Y. (Current Year as opposed to Ye Olde) people who are viewed as respectable, intelligent, etc. are just like such people in Y.O.  They say things that are currently popular, currently viewed as good, and currently thought of as intelligent.  While we can look back at a learned man in ^AD1420 who said that of course you prayed to the savior every night, people in ^CE2420 can look back at the respected fools in ^CE2020 who said that of course investment in mathematics programs for Australian pygmy children will eventually produce score parity with Australian Chinese.  Jesusians tend to be better at recognizing the absurdity of Bangist fantasies, Bangists Jesusian, but they're both just--sadly--universalists.  

“Calvin” and “Calvinism” are viewed with a similar narcissistic disdain.  What Calvin did was actually quite reasonable: he said that S.R. knew already who would be saved.  Kind of like predestination.  

“Wha…?  He…?”  Yeah; Calvin did say that.  See, the thing about traditional Christianity is it posits an omniscient God.  S.R. knows down to the molecule what you’ll have for breakfast on a certain day 23 years from now (or if you’ll be dead then He knows that instead).  Jesus also knows what kind of clothes your neighbor then will pick to wear every day this kid on the other side of the planet will go to the bathroom the week after that, and so forth.  That’s what omniscience is.  It means all knowing.  Indeed, it is kind of a Luciferian sin to say that there is something that S.R. doesn’t know.  

Religions that claim there is an omni- deity of some sort run into problems.  Think of the problem with omnipotence, wherein lies the question, “Can God make a rock so big He can’t move it?”  If He can’t then He can’t make a rock that big, and so is not omnipotent; if He can, then He can’t move rocks of a certain size (type/construction/etc.) and so is not omnipotent.  There is no answer to that question, so Jesusian Christianity just left it vague.  

(Omni-things are self-contradictory traps, which is why everyone else had stopped using them in their religions.  However, one really dumb religion kept using an omnipotent, omniscient god.  Legacy Christianity is that dumbness, and Jesusians who try to get "Amen!" said are adhering to that dumbness.)  

This is a problem with all religions which posit an omniscient demiurge (all knowing creator).  I.e., God is so smart that He already knows ahead of time who will be saved and who will go to Hell.  He made you to either go to Hell or to Heaven.  If you say He doesn’t know because of free will, then He must have picked you to be tortured forever in Hell because if you do that then you doubt the power of God—enjoy getting made unwilling l0v3 to in the posterior for all time by Janet Napolitano’s doppelgänger with her spiked implement of such love.  

God made everyone, so He made some people who are destined for Hell and some who are destined for Heaven.  This can be really upsetting to Jesusian Christians, because why bother praying/donating/being nice/etc. if it’s already set in stone?  S.R. is an omniscient god, so He already knows if you’re due to be saved or not.  Because this was so troubling to Jesusian Christians, and because it would destroy their whole religion if they addressed it, they didn’t.  They tried to save the magnificence of S.R. via “Free Will,” because they say S.R. is so nice that He gave you free will to choose Heaven or Hell even though He already knows which you’ll pick.  More important than His total knowledge is His total power.  S.R. made everyone, and knew exactly what He was doing a lot before, a little before, during, and after.  He could have changed everything a little after, a long time after, now, and a little/long time after now.  There is no way to say that Free Will—or any other kind of will, for that matter—had the power to change the decisions made either 7000 years ago or 10-20 billion years ago.  No way.  

(If you doubt that S.R. had the power to make you so that you would choose certain things, then we hope you enjoy that time with Janet.  You don’t even get sleep breaks; you just get “Eaten alive by ants” breaks, “You’re tied to this metal table while laughing dude applies way-too-tight nipple clamps and his assistants poke you with long needles breaks,” and stuff like that.  Remember that the mass killer of babies designed reality, including Satan and Hell, and knew who would go there.  That means you if you doubt that S.R. is omniscient or omnipotent.)  

That kind of quandary makes the religion utterly impractical, the same as the question of whether S.R. can make a rock so big He can’t move it.  If that kind of thing is left vague, though, you can just pray and sing hymns and feel okay.  (Since you can have all the free will you like and He still made you and knew what choice He was making you to pick, i.e. He made lots of people just to be tortured forever.)  And that’s why Jesusian Christians have to not think hard about it.  Like the rock-size question, they just ignore it.  

(That’s kind of the way that the news handles impossible things: never talks about them in detail but just refers to them as certain.)  Many centuries of human philosophy have grappled with the problems of omniscience and omnipotence, but generations of Jesusian Christians have just learned to ignore them.  Like the way that today’s non-Jesusian Christians keep coming up with new reasons to explain why different groups of people get different standardized test scores, the way Christian beliefs do not match up with reality is impolite to discuss.  

Calvin dealt with this in an admirable way, in that he took it literally.  Instead of being an evangelical who acted like he believed that he could cause people to get saved despite for what S.R. had designed them, he actually supported S.R.’s ominscience.  Establishing a community of people who said they believed they were blessed by S.R., he had them live together and liturgize.  S.R. had made them, S.R. knew who would be saved and not, and to doubt that was to doubt S.R.’s total power and knowledge.  Such beliefs did not support evangelism, since S.R. had already chosen who He would save and whom He would not save).  However, if you actually believe in an all powerful and all knowing god, enjoying yourself among a few dozen thousand fellow supporters, rather than trying to convert people whom S.R. already knows are doomed anyway, is much better.  It is certainly more honest.   

Again, the question comes back to the distinction between matter and being saved from matter.  If you are a man who wants to be saved from the cycle of life so you can be with a divine man, to love Him truly and be loved by Him in turn, you want to make Calvin's choice.  The savior can be said to be waiting for you:

By contrast, if you like living things more, then you approve of borders that keep outside things out, you want someone like Ostara instead: