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longship

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3. Betsy DeVos is a Calvinist!

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Sat Jun 3, 2017, 04:00 PM

Jun 2017

She graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, which is the world headquarters of the Dutch Reformed Church, which is Calvinist through and through.

No number of good deeds in life will save your miserable soul from eternity in Hell-fire. Everybody is predestined at birth. So, one might as well get it all while one can, I guess.

They are despicable people.

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Fool's Calvinism Comes Home to Roost [View all] McCamy Taylor Jun 2017 OP

kick Dawson Leery Jun 2017 #1

"I did it to make money" coupled with is father's philosophy... eleny Jun 2017 #2

Betsy DeVos is a Calvinist! longship Jun 2017 #3

Careful how you generalize. TomSlick Jun 2017 #4

You are correct, of course. longship Jun 2017 #5

Even so, TomSlick Jun 2017 #7

You don't know the Dutch Reformed here. longship Jun 2017 #9

The problem with any Church TomSlick Jun 2017 #10

Again, you don't know the Dutch Reformed. longship Jun 2017 #11

You've intrigued me. TomSlick Jun 2017 #12

My reason... longship Jun 2017 #13

K&R Scurrilous Jun 2017 #6

As I Christian I always found Calvin to be a prick! hrmjustin Jun 2017 #8