Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.
Yeah, the White Horse Inn is a pan-conservative Reformed group (conservative Presbyterians and Lutherans), but my folks are in the real deep end of Calvinism
Lest folks think this stuff is new, my parents’ denomination spent over a century refusing to vote, serve in office, or take an oath because the US Constitution doesn’t say that Christ is King.
Good question, kinda made me ponder for a sec. My shorthand has been “theocratic Geneva, by way of the rebellious Scots, and then transmitted to the US in the early days”, but within the US I think Pennsylvania is a historical center for it (after splitting from Princeton Seminary in the 20th cy)
I'm from western PA and am the descendant of early 20th-century Catholic immigrants to the area and holy balls I think you just explained a large part of the social friction I experienced with my peers growing up but had trouble putting my finger on.
In my mind I associate Calvin with Holland. No idea why. Google says he was from Switzerland. Honestly have never bothered to keep up with the many protestant factions and their differences.
No real reason to follow the distinctions, but I’ll offer that the historical context of Luther vs Calvin had big impacts on the theologies— Lutherans with a decidedly non-revolutionary/quietistic nature (had to please a prince/king/state head) whereas Calvin got full theocracy in a city-state.