blakebaggott replied to yourpost:would it be unfair to say that calvinism and the...
I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and while I think there are a lot more factors to it, I think this may still play a factor is certain people with certain personalities. For me, it may have been an implicit factor, but there was still the “Deus ex machina” factor, i.e. I was faced with tough verses that only Calvinism (at the time) was giving me frameworks for. But still interesting observation.
Absolutely, it doesn’t apply across the board.
And I think religious convictions like this throw more of a wrench into these assertions than people realize. A relevant example is the blanket statement that “people who say they’re pro-life actually just want to control women.” Certainly, many do, and the way they talk about the issue betrays that, but too many progressives who didn’t grow up in religious environments simply don’t understand that there are many honest people who, with no doubt or ulterior motive, believe that a fetus is a human life, and are genuinely mortified and politically paralyzed by the way half the country and most of the world seemingly wants to legalize murdering infants. The issue isn’t treated with the care it deserves.
