Lorenzo Dow on Calvinism

You can and you can’t; you shall and shan’t; you will and you won’t; and you will be damned if you do; and you will be damned if you don’t.
Lorenzo Dow, 19th C anti-Calvinist ditty. It is, of course, unfair but as a funny little rhyme it is OK.

Comments

Shaylin said…
That's rather like the Calvinist children's song:

Jesus loves some of the children,
Some of the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and blue,
Jesus loves me more than you.
Jesus loves some of the children of the world.
27 January 2011 at 17:47
John Lofton, Recovering Republican said…
That's EXACTLY what "election" is all about, Shaylin! God loves/saves some; some He does not love/save. That's clearly spelled out in Scripture. WE are not God's judge. God is OUR judge.

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Communications Director, Institute On The Constitution
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
28 January 2011 at 22:00
Anonymous said…
Dear John,

Robert Burns wrote a parody of a Calvinist's prayer to God:

O Thou who in the Heavens dost dwell
Who, as it pleases best thysel'
Sends one to heaven, and ten to hell
All for thy glory
And not for any good or ill
They've done before thee.

In other words, 90% of all the people who've ever lived are rejected without any chance.

How exactly is this "good news" to the world?
28 January 2011 at 23:01
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