G-C is trotting out his calvinist background of bullshit theology. Dear old Calvin.... as miserable a motherfucker as any who ever lived... claimed that his fucking god had already decided who was saved and who was not and called the "the Elect." However, no one knew which was which so this led to all sorts of divination about how to figure out who was in the celestial club and who wasn't.
This quickly led to material wealth being a sign of "god's" favor - something the fucking republicunts still believe in fiercely. However, it did little good for the poor hardscrabble farmers who didn't have a pot to piss in so, as always happens in religion, a new doctrine spread among the poor ( and ignorant ) that all you had to do was profess belief in fucking jesus and you were "saved." So much easier than all that hard work shit. A natural for rural America.
The sad fact is that morons like G-C will believe anything they are told.
Quote:However, the Calvinist and Lutheran theologians taught that only those who were predestined (cf. the Calvinist concept of double predestination) to be saved would be saved. Since it was impossible to know who was predestined, the notion developed that it might be possible to discern that a person was elect (predestined) by observing their way of life. Hard work and frugality were thought to be two important consequences of being one of the elect; thus, Protestants were attracted to these qualities.
This quickly led to material wealth being a sign of "god's" favor - something the fucking republicunts still believe in fiercely. However, it did little good for the poor hardscrabble farmers who didn't have a pot to piss in so, as always happens in religion, a new doctrine spread among the poor ( and ignorant ) that all you had to do was profess belief in fucking jesus and you were "saved." So much easier than all that hard work shit. A natural for rural America.
The sad fact is that morons like G-C will believe anything they are told.
