Pathocracy /kieselguhr, jeshimon,

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Fri May 4 06:05:51 CDT 2007


On May 3, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Robert Mahnke wrote:

>
> I thought that there were three categories of people: The elect, the
> preterite, and the damned.  The elect will receive eternal  
> salvation, and
> the damned won't.  The preterite don't whether they're elect or  
> damned, so
> they act like elect and hope for the best.  Really, no one knows  
> whether
> they're elect or preterite, but the damned aren't acting like the  
> elect so
> it's clear who they are.
>
> A few minutes of Googling doesn't reveal confirm this, so I may  
> just be
> making it up.


Oh, that's OK. They were ALL just making it up.

Calvin was a very hard, uncompromising guy and his God was not a  
Jeffersonian.

All men were not created equal.





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