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"Intolerant believers embrace what we may call Calvins contradiction, after the theologian who, perhaps, most brazenly weds the notions of religious certainty and textual interpretive inerrancy with the directly contradictory notion of humanitys moral and epistemic fallenness. John Calvins steadfast refusal to consider the implications of his view of human depravity for his own claims regarding the nature and meaning of scripture has conditioned Protestant belief ever since, setting the stage for the flight from anxiety that has helped to push the self-satisfied certainty of many Christians in tragically (and sinfully) aggressive and intolerant directions."
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Derek Malone-France
