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Calvinists: Founders of Christian Nations

This post/list comes courtesy of Cody Justice: https://www.facebook.com/plymouth.weaver  Some #Thanksgiving #ChristianNationalism food for those who have appetite. "Calvin is the man who, next to St. Paul, has done most good to mankind." —William Cunningham "To omit Calvin from the forces of Western evolution is to read history with one eye shut." —Lord John Morley "It would hardly be too much to say that for the latter part of his lifetime and a century after his death John Calvin was the most influential man in the world, in the sense that his ideas were making more history than those of anyone else during that period. Calvin’s theology produced the Puritans in England, the Huguenots in France, the ‘Beggars’ in Holland, the Covenanters in Scotland, and the Pilgrim Fathers of New England, and was more or less directly responsible for the Scottish uprising, the revolt of the Netherlands, the French wars of religion, and the English Civil War. Also, it was Cal...