I appreciate the cordial reception from the forum members. It is refreshing to enter a realm of sanity whilst all around the maelstrom of irrational thought pervades.
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied.
"Heretics and Heresies",Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1, p. 226
"Heretics and Heresies",Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1, p. 226