• meep_launcher@lemm.eeOP
      12·
      10 months ago

      The meme is about John Calvin, who founded Calvinism. Essentially Calvinism is the idea that if God is all knowing, then God already knows who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. God is nice to the people going to heaven, so people who are wealthy and healthy are so because they are good and going to heaven. If you are poor or had an accident, it is because God is smiting you because you are bad.

      Essentially this is the root of American puritanism. In my experience of being a mentally ill person, having the thought “you have a mental illness because you are a bad person” isn’t helpful but damn it’s pervasive.

      • ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        As a recovering Calvinist… oof

        As an undiagnosed autistic raised in a conservative christian (Calvinist) home, it took me a long time to realize my depression wasn’t because I was bad but instead because God quite simply hates me / gets off on my pain.

  • Sharkictus@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    The common idiots interpretation of Calvinism and actual theology are extraordinarily different.

    Calvin literally warned against that prosperity is not instrisically a sign of being a member of the elect.

  • Flughoernchen@feddit.de
    55·
    10 months ago

    If a guy that’s been dead for almost 500 years is your biggest problem, your life must’ve been pretty neat so far.