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To: Natural Law
Borrowing from Hinduism many fringe Calvinists actually practice a form of the Brahiminst caste system in which they profess that their own Salvation was secure from the beginning of time and no obligation exists toward the less fortunate and needy because God rejected their election from the beginning of time.

That must be why the Calvinists of the Mayflower Compact covenanted together the first written Constitution in America - "for the Glory of God and the advancement of the Christian religion." </sarcasm>

70 posted on 02/28/2011 6:20:38 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Diamond
"That must be why the Calvinists of the Mayflower Compact covenanted together the first written Constitution in America - "for the Glory of God and the advancement of the Christian religion."

You are wrong on a number of accounts. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Each preceding colony had a similar governing charter.

To draw any pride from the actual contents of the Mayflower Compact or to fabricate any parallels to the US Constitution is an exercise in lunacy. It set forth no rights for the colonists nor any limitations on the colonial government. In practice it codified a socialist experiment that resulted in the deaths of two thirds of the original colonists because like the flawed Calvinist doctrine works were not required. It was also the most oppressive and intolerant colony on the continent.

Lastly, the Compact gives specific reference to Virginia, the original location. Plymouth was chosen as a location because the terribly off course Mayflower had run out of beer and would go no further.

113 posted on 02/28/2011 8:43:32 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Diamond; Natural Law
That's cause the Calvinists meant "advancement of the Calvinist religion" because a lot of Calvinists say that non-Calvinists (Pentecostals, Methodists, Lutherans etc) are damnable heretics and these Presbyterians believe that Calvinism = Christianity.

however, Calvinism with it's hindu beliefs in karma etc. actually practice a form of the Brahiminst caste system in which they profess that their own Salvation was secure from the beginning of time and no obligation exists toward the less fortunate and needy because God rejected their election from the beginning of time.

220 posted on 03/02/2011 7:32:49 AM PST by Cronos ("They object to tradition saying that they themselves are wiser than the apostles" - Ire.III.2.2)
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