The other day I was both startled and pleased to see a scorching attack
on “The Cult of Christian Trumpism
<https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cult-christian-trumpism/>”
by Michael Horton, a Calvinist theologian. It began:
On Saturday, December 12, a bizarre rally was held on the Washington
Mall. Shofars were blown. A flyover from Marine One was cheered by
shouts of praise to the Messiah (evidently distinguished from
Jesus). My Pillow founder Mike Lindell shared prophetic visions of
Donald Trump.
I was pleased to see any hard-core Christian trashing the rightwing
evangelicals who form Trump’s main political base but why was I
startled? It turns out that this was not my first exposure to Horton.
Decades ago, I used to listen to a radio show on WMCA, NY’s
all-Christian station, called theWhite Horse Inn
<https://whitehorseinn.org/> that featured Horton and his fellow
Calvinists discussing the finer points of original sin, predestination,
and how to live a Christian life.
The show got its title from a 16^th century pub in Cambridge, England
where Lutherans met to discuss how they could they could advance the
goals of the Reformation. Horton and his cohorts paid homage to the pub
because they see themselves a spearheading a New Reformation, the title
of a magazine that promotes their views, most of which are at odds with
the Prosperity Gospel and all the other decadent Protestant institutions
that they see as being badly in need of purgation. If the original
Reformation was aimed at the excesses of the Catholic Church, Horton
sees a New Reformation as one targeting Joel Osteen, et al.
https://louisproyect.org/2020/12/20/me-and-the-calvinists/
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