The Anti-Calvinist Rant

[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 "...

[Yeah, yeah, I said it: "cult."  But I've come to believe this is an accurate word to describe Calvinism and the way it operates, at least when it comes to stealth Calvinism.  Any maybe even regular old Calvinism.  And I'll explain it more in this "Calvi-cult's damage" series, which I'll be posting here and there between the regular every-other-week posts.  A lot in this series is review of things I've already written, so skip it if you want to.  (Although it's good to repeat it now and again, especially for those who missed it.)  But I wanted to put all this together into a new series in honor of a reddit commenter who made my heart hurt.] While browsing reddit's "ex-reformed" posts, I found the commenter H VAC_MLG who has recently written a lot about the damage Calvinism has done to him - and still continues to do - even though he left Calvinism a couple years ago.  (But it sounds like his wife is still in it.  Sad.) And in th...