tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post4134449990305588162..comments2024-01-15T05:32:24.873-05:00Comments on The Jon Rowe Archives: Jonathan Rowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post-61779030798121008832009-03-09T22:37:00.000-04:002009-03-09T22:37:00.000-04:00Yes its about time that some real honesty was exer...Yes its about time that some real honesty was exercised into what Calvin really represented especially taking into account the immutable dictum---by their fruits (actions) you will SURELY know them.<BR/><BR/>Calvin was a pleasureless pyschopath and a mass-murderer or serial killer.<BR/><BR/>He was either responsible for or authorised the execution of numerous people including children, his adult step-children and their "illicit" lovers, plus his former best friend Servetus.<BR/><BR/>Bearing in mind too, that execution is never justified in any circumstance.<BR/><BR/>Who would Jesus execute?<BR/><BR/>He also authorised the wholesale slaughter of the Anabaptist "heretics".<BR/><BR/>By contrast a life informed by the Spirit of Love would be a celebration of The Beautiful.<BR/><BR/>It would be demonstrated by boundless grace, spontaneous happiness, non-ironic humour, laughter, music, singing, dancing, profuse use colour, tolerant and compassionate help to every one within ones personal sphere of intimacy, and extended in one way or another to everyone within ones wider community----all of which were punishable in Calvins theocratic mini-state--EVEN BY EXECUTION.<BR/><BR/>And yet this monstrous human being is sometines (and especially in 2009) celebrated as a great man of god and one of the finest "christian" minds that there ever was--or could be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com