If John Calvin is one of the elect, so is Adolf Hitler!

If ignorance is bliss, it is no more blissful than when it
comes to the man John Calvin and his heretical theology.
As many have rightfully stated, you should not look at the
teachings of John Calvin, before you have first examined
the life of John Calvin. Many people are not aware that
reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin bred the
anti-Semitism that emboldened and served to encourage
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Even at the Nazi trials in
Nuremburg, quotes from the protestant reformers could be
heard as they made their defense for exterminating the
Jews. To quote John Calvin himself, “Their [the Jews]
rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be
oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that
they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.” Luther
was even more vehement in his hatred for the Jews. It was
his systematic plan to exterminate the Jews that is reborn
in the heart of socialist Germany and legally carried out by
Hitler and his henchmen.

One might see a statement like that from John Calvin as an
error in poor judgment or maybe something that could be
attributed to ignorance and youth, but however it cannot.
The reality is that life under John Calvin’s reign of terror
in Geneva was no different than the life of a Jew in a
German concentration camp. Historical records that are
without dispute concerning their veracity, paint a picture of
an ungodly, sick, feeble and deranged individual. While
some want to teach his theological achievements, they are
quick to ignore his murderous heart. John Calvin once had
a man tortured for over a month and then beheaded, just
because he placed a note calling John Calvin a hypocrite on
his podium in his pulpit. If that wasn’t enough, he then
threw his wife and her children out of their home and set it
on fire as she watched it burn helplessly. Life under John
Calvin, the “Pope of Geneva” as he is referred to, was no
different than the terror unleashed by the Roman Catholic
Church on Protestants throughout the rest of Europe. The
people of Geneva hated John Calvin, and upon his first stay
there, he was run out of town for trying to establish a
tyrant’s rule. The same town council who had received him
at Guillaume Farel’s pleading, within two years had come
to his door to give him three days to get out of town. When
Calvin returned to Geneva the second time his life was a
complete failure. His father had died in shame
mismanaging church funds and his brother Charles had
been excommunicated. John Calvin was broke, living in
exile and already labeled a heretic. His only
accomplishment was a worthless paper on a humanist
writing that no one even cared to read.
He was an attorney with a Doctorate in
Law, not theology. Due to desperation on
behalf of the Genève’s and a bit of fate,
John Calvin returned to Geneva a
second time after they agreed to submit
to him completely. Over the next thirty
years, life in Geneva was hell on earth.
According to records, from 1541 to 1546,
fifty-eight people were executed and seventy-six exiled from
Geneva. Calvin was consulted in all affairs of State and his
advice was usually followed. Attendance at public worship
was mandatory and watchmen were directed to see that
people went to church. Three men who were caught
laughing during a sermon were imprisoned for three days.
Death sentences were routinely imposed and it is reported
that even a girl was beheaded for striking her parents.
Calvin also had twenty women burned at the stake after
accusing them of causing a plague that had swept through
Geneva in 1545. Later this would be repeated, as men
trained in the school of Calvin, burned the “witches” in
Salem, here in America. Anyone who did not attend church
had to repeat prayers, and beg for forgiveness. Every home
was inspected for sin yearly and children were encouraged
to spy on, and report their parents. In Calvin’s church,
fines, whippings, and even death punished sinners. The
truth of John Calvin’s tyrannical dictatorship is forever
etched in the history of Geneva.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. While many have
ignorantly followed John Calvin’s teachings, they ignore
the inconsistency in every turn of his life. The fact is that
John Calvin never had an original thought. This so-called
“great” systematic theologian insisted on infant baptism
until the day he died. This is quite ironic for a man
believing in election. He accused people who believed the
earth revolved around the sun of being possessed by the
devil. But the greatest tragedy is his insanity brought to
America a host of heretical teachings which are the
foundation for Protestantism in America today. These
things and more, all came from a man who was as
tyrannical and murderous as Adolf Hitler himself, and like
Luther, served as Adolf’s inspiration. Next time you call
yourself a Calvinist, you will now have a better
understanding about who you are and where your beliefs
come from. My hope is, you will also have the courage to
discard them!