I mean they were the white Christian Talibanhttps://twitter.com/brchastain/status/870694888051843073 …
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"Calvin saw himself, in principle, as fighting for the common man as equal before God to entrenched aristocratic families" Like the Taliban
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"For a truly free society he believed the corrupt influence of elites had to be eliminated" Because he was the Taliban guy
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I don't care so much about what his religious vision was for purging all the sex workers and bartenders and people who owned decks of cards
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Oh whoops another religiously-fueled "populist" uprising that ends with one dude telling everyone what to do and burning his enemies alive
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Look if there were another New World to seize and it was Afghan religious extremists who colonized it then we'd have "Omarism"
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And statues of Mullah Omar in front of mosques and "Talibanists" would be associated with old-fashioned Anne of Green Gables nostalgia
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Sorry if this offends Presbyterian church ladies I didn't make up history
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This is in a sense what actually is happening with Salafism generally but that isn't my lane (follow
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"Calvin's followers saw themselves as scholars of Scripture foremost and only reluctantly entered politics" Look up what "Taliban" means
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