This has perplexed me for years. How can the existence of an omnipotent omniscient being with a plan for my life give my life meaning and purpose? The word used to define someone who's entire raison d'etre is to fulfill the objectives of the intelligence running the game in which they are merely a minor piece, is pawn.
Calvin took xtian theology to it's perfect and logical conclusion. If TULIP is true, then grace (god's whim) is the only possible route to salvation. Not only that, but god, being god, has known from the get go who is and is not a member of the elect. Congratulations, you were condemned to hellfire before god even said boo, and there is nothing you can do about it. God being god and all that.
Now the other thing that Calvin disposed of is objective morality. There is no objective morality, god determines the good, and should it please god to declare incest and child murder as necessary, well then incest and child murder are necessary, and to refuse is disobedience, which leads to hell.
Well, actually it might not, grace being undeserved, god, in a whimsical mood, just might grant heaven to the disobedient.
But there's no way to know for sure.
To be quite honest, when one is confronted with the xtian god, I truly believe that the only possible choice a moral and ethical being can make is to reject him entirely. For the torments of hell will certainly be less morally repugnant than an eternity condemned to the presence of such a hideous being.
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