I'm not sure I understand the difference? I was "saved", "born again", I followed jesus, and I adhered to a calvinist philosophy in regards to my interpretation of the bible
I’m not religious anymore, and was saying ‘calvinist’ as opposed to ‘christian’ because it’s typically associated with stricter lifestyle ideas, which mapped more onto the person I was responding to.
Yes, that's what I was implying. Giving up one set of ideals for another sounds very different than "i used to believe i 'knew God', followed Jesus and sin was real, but I now I know it's all myth". One more conceptual, one more personal.
I've been lifelong friends with calvinists, but have never even overheard anyone described those morals as Calvinist...hence why I assumed Calvinism was more religious identification than faith. Those morals have only ever been, in my experience, Jesus-oriented.