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Saturday, 10 January 2009

I Think My Wife’s A Calvinist

To kick off The Third Witness Virtual Folk Club, I’d like to dedicate this gem of a song to Gavin, Dennis and all other theologically-inclined visitors with a sense of humour as we start the year that marks the 500th aniversary of the birth of John Calvin. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome... Brandon Milan and his Calvinist wife! (Hat tip: Internet Monk.)

“And when religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man’s belief is bad,
It will not be improv’d by burning.”

– Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“I have never understood … why a solid argument is any less solid because you make the illustrations as entertaining as you can … If you say that two sheep added to two sheep make four sheep, your audience will accept it patiently—like sheep. But if you say it of two monkeys, or two kangaroos, or two sea-green griffins, people will refuse to believe that two and two make four … they cannot believe that anything decorated by an incidental joke can be sensible.”

– G. K. Chesterton

“Beware of telling an improbable truth.”

– Thomas Fuller

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Saturday, 10 January 2009

I Think My Wife’s A Calvinist

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