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Calvinism's cognitive dissonance (from Sot 101's "Nominal Calvinism")

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A few comments from the comment section of Soteriology 101's post Nominal Calvinism (also see this post for more comments from that Sot 101 post):  TS00 (an anti-Calvinist like me) says: I have also often asked Calvinist friends how they can possibly question, rue, or complain about any evil under the sun, if it all comes from the eternal divine decree of God for his glory?  But the Calvinist, as br.d suggests, has learned to compartmentalize in order to minimize the cognitive dissonance that Calvinism inevitably creates. Few, if any, Calvinists consistently look at the evil events in the world, or even the small irritations they face daily, as being directly decreed by God and worthy of only praise and thanksgiving.  If they did, they could not take a stand against abortion, genocide or child abuse, to name but a few of the evils in this world. They could not, consistently, mourn the loss of lives that abortions, mass shootings or imperial wars produce.  Rather, t...
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Snippet, part 6: TULIP's Totally-Depraved Doctrine

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[Snippet to Ponder part 6, #23, is taken from an Alana L. post (but slightly updated here) that will be coming up later in the springtime.  So technically, this is a foreshadow of what's coming.  FYI: The Alana series will go all the way to "Z/Conclusion."  The next in the series is "S," and so we still have a handful more to go until the end.]  Calvinism's TULIP petals are all built on each other, one after the next.  And it all starts with "total depravity" (their bad definition of it) : R.C. Sproul  ( Total Depravity part 1 ) :   "...  if a person really embraces the doctrine of total depravity, the other four points in this five-point system more or less fall in line. They become corollaries of this first point." And so if they can get you to buy into their view of total depravity (as "total inability"), they can easily get you to buy into their whole TULIP, ensuring that you will become a Calvinist. Because if we are "...
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