[Vision2020] Heart of Calvinism

[MeinName IstExecutioner]

I think I've discovered the heart of Calvinism.  Whatever is pleasant is predestined.
Whatever is nice and merry and makes Calvinists feel good about themselves is
right and in God's will.  After all, if the future is bleak and those that we love may
 not be in Heaven with us, why, then that can't be the truth.  Therefore these
 infant baptism and half-way covenant issues spring up because it makes the
 Reformed happy to know that if their children are baptized, they automatically go
 to Heaven.
It seems perhaps overly simplified, so tack on that God predestined it, and there
you go!  Life is roses again.  And all your enemies are going to Hell, and they're
(the enemies) are predestined to Hell (so the Calvinists say), so again, life is good. And if anyone dares to speak out against Christ Church, why then, they
claim persecution!  And freely so, in such a free nation as this where the ability
to even declare that one is being persecuted can be made.
 It is blissful to be a Calvinist.
Unfortunately, Jesus did not have it so merry.  If going to Heaven was based on
predestination, then I suppose Jesus did not have to preach to the multitudes.  
Jesus wasted quite a few words, then.
I only bring it up because I was reading a book, and one of the characters was
described as being good Calvinist.  The scenario was that she she had a choice
between a weekly meeting with an old friend who enjoyed her presence or 
going to a show.  She decided that since tickets were already bought for the 
show, she had no choice to say no to going, and therefore decided that hurting
the other's feelings was predestined, because in reality, she really wanted to
go to the show anyway, and not meet the old friend.  So she kidded herself and 
declared it destiny, and therefore, the author called her a good Calvinist.  
Because whatever is predestined is good, right?  Because it makes us happy.
If, at any time, a Calvinist is not happy, it is not God's will.
Or so it seems, right?
Wasn't there a Scripture that said it's not God's will that any man should perish?
But some still do, don't they?
I suppose that should be stricken from the Bible because God did not really
mean to "say" that.
As for the French, I saw in one post that C. Witmer was decrying Rose Huskey
because she generalized the French as accepting Nazism.  As I recall from
my history lessons, the French resistance was quite small.  Actually, if one
thinks about it, if most of the proud mighty French were against Nazism, wouldn't
 they have stopped the spread of Hitler instead of leaving it to a small minority?
Perhaps I am wrong...

       
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