John Calvin, we hardly knew ye
Posted: November 3, 2009 at 4:46 a.m.
If you think Dick Cheney has suffered from bad PR, man, think about John Calvin’s image. The father of Calvinism had a heretic burned at the stake in 1553, and it’s been downhill ever since. The burning is what many people remember about the Protestant reformer. Modern drawings of a dour-looking Calvin make Ebenezer Scrooge look like a fun guy.
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Editorial, Pages 12 on 11/03/2009
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