Calvinism a life-system - pagina 30

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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and therefore gives and

rise to

the systems of caste in India

Egypt, and to slavery everywhere

in

man under

placing one

a base subjection to his fellow-

Under Islamism, which dreams of

man.

its

honries, sensuality usurps public authority, is

the

of man, even as the kafir

slave

Romanism, taking root

Moslim.

the

overcomes the absolute character of ders

it

relative, in

man

to

man

thereby

else,

is

paradise of

and woman the slave of

in Christian soil,

distinction,

and ren-

order to interpret every relation of

There

hierarchically.

among

a hierarchy

is

of God, a hierarchy in God'* Church, and

the angels

so also a hierarchy

among men,

leading to an entirely

embodiment of

aristocratic

interpretation of

the ideal.

Finally Modernism, which denies and abol-

ishes

every

as the

life

cannot rest until

difference,

it

made

has

woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under One type must answer

the ban of uniformity.

for

all,

one uniform, one position and one and the same deve-

lopment of it,

is

and whatever goes beyond and above

Hfe;

looked

upon

ciousness. In the its

relation, If

diately

women,

relation

to

God

which since the

God,

rich or poor,

as creatures of

cons-

1

a pecuHar interpretation

and

man,

it

is

this

only true

6th century has ennobled social

Calvinism places our entire before

common

an insult to the

fundamental relation to

of man's

life.

as

same way Calvinism has derived from

then

it

follows

weak or

God, and as

human that

life

all

imme-

men

or

strong, dull or talented,

lost sinners,

have no claim

whatsoever to lord over one another, and that we stand as

equals before God, and consequently equal as

man

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