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                                    October 2008 - Killings, Torture, Political
                                    Dictatorship: all in the Name of Jesus
                                    Christ. Welcome to the "love" of
                                    John Calvin's Christianity, which shapes the
                                    doctrines and philosophy of many of today's
                                    Evangelical Christians, including Rick
                                    Warren. Dave Hunt
                                    is a well-known Bible teacher based in the
                                    USA. He is known for his in-depth analyses
                                    of trends and movements in especially the
                                    Evangelical part of what
                                    "Christianity". With books like
                                    "The Seduction Of Christianity",
                                    he exposed the New Age nature of many
                                    popular "prophets" and
                                    "healers".
                                     However,
                                    it's not just those more or less recent
                                    trends within Christianity that may find
                                    themselves into the attention of Dave Hunt.
                                    Under the title "A Woman Rides The
                                    Beast", he exposed the system of the
                                    Roman Catholic Church for what she really
                                    is, too. In
                                    "What Love Is This", Dave Hunt
                                    exposes another part of Christianity, which
                                    came into existence in Western Europe a
                                    couple of centuries ago. It's widely known
                                    as "The Reformation": the birth of
                                    the Protestant Churches in Europe. The
                                    Reformation Movement included people like
                                    Martin Luther and also a man called John
                                    Calvin, the founder of what we now know
                                    under the name "Calvinism". He
                                    wrote a number of books, in which he created
                                    a whole philosophy around what he perceived
                                    the Message of the Divine Saviour to be. He
                                    also became the mayor of Geneva
                                    (Switzerland) where he would practice the
                                    kind of politics that even the Taliban of
                                    today are not accused of. In this
                                    lecture, Dave Hunt sheds light on various
                                    aspects of Calvinism. He shows without the
                                    shadow of a doubt, that Calvin's ideas have
                                    nothing to do with the God Who reveals
                                    Himself in the original Bible. There is no
                                    love whatsoever to be found in the Message
                                    that the God of John Calvin has, as can be
                                    seen in the practical work-out of Calvinism. John Calvin
                                    would torture people who disagreed with him.
                                    A child who had a bad mouth against his
                                    parents would be beheaded, for example.
                                    People who refused to accept child baptism
                                    were drowned, others were burned alive. In England,
                                    followers of the religious dictator and
                                    false prophet turned the whole country into
                                    an even more extreme version of Calvin's
                                    Geneva. Everybody who would disagree with
                                    John Calvin's sick doctrines, would be
                                    tortured and killed. In fact,
                                    the whole "Reformation" was
                                    nothing more than... a reformation. A system
                                    was updated, rather than abolished. Babylon
                                    wasn't left, Babylon was... updated. The Roman
                                    Catholic Church is known for it's brutal
                                    persecution of "heretics". The
                                    stories of the Crusades and the Inquisition
                                    can be considered standard knowledge, but
                                    the fact that the so-called
                                    "Reformers" continued the practice
                                    of religious dictatorship is rather ignored
                                    by many who called themselves Protestant or
                                    Evangelical Christians today. In fact,
                                    Dave Hunt shows that the two predominant
                                    names of the Reformation, Martin Luther and
                                    John Calvin, were Roman Catholics who
                                    actually took their ideas from Augustine, a
                                    "church father" who basically is
                                    the founder of Roman Catholicism. Luther,
                                    for example, was an Augustinian Monk.  The
                                    "Reformers" didn't step out of the
                                    Babylon that is the Roman Catholic Church
                                    System, but they rather, as the word says,
                                    "reformed" it. With the result,
                                    that those people who practiced adult
                                    baptism rather than child baptism would be
                                    persecuted, tortured and killed. Fast
                                    forward to today. Contemporary followers of
                                    John Calvin's reli-fascism may not have the
                                    political power they used to have anymore,
                                    but if they would, the Taliban would be
                                    considered a human rights group compared to
                                    them. We know
                                    them under various names, one of which is
                                    "dominionists". Rick Warren and
                                    his Purpose Driven Madness, for example, can
                                    also be seen as a political Calvinist since
                                    he strives to create "world peace"
                                    under the rule of his "Purpose Driven
                                    Christianity".  In Calvin's
                                    philosophy, "Christians" are a
                                    superior kind of being and destined to take
                                    over the whole world so that Jesus Christ
                                    can safely return, as if the Lord God and
                                    Saviour is a helpless individual. They will
                                    impose by law what the Bible says is the
                                    Work of the Holy Spirit within people,
                                    creating not only an evil caricature (Dave
                                    Hunt calls it a
                                    "misrepresentation") of God, but
                                    de facto creating an environment wherein
                                    Satan's Antichrist feels very much at home. Listen to
                                    Dave Hunt, as he simply asks himself, and
                                    his audience: "What Love Is This?"
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