Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress Date: 12 May 2026 03:51:31 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <10sv1kk$gjtg$1@dont-email.me> <69f472c8$0$10325$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10t8gmr$37epi$4@dont-email.me> <18ac73d880b9a55f$7676$2865982$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <69ff0649$0$7099$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10tn7ht$3k3t6$2@dont-email.me> <10to9gf$3ukfs$2@dont-email.me> <10tofke$d9h$2@dont-email.me> <10tohtu$rit$5@dont-email.me> <10tsdh6$127ja$2@dont-email.me> <10tsvom$18ale$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5Ap1ol4ddlDdA127WUwHqQSm8UmqzFfbUn9OXXP2Psvgx+XSe7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:OSloE74ecqFr3ybb/QDUBO5qx9c= sha256:rtJF9J2Nw5g8wvAloPN8Og9ZepfBZj2PkY0PQztvJ88= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86440 On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:22:45 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Calvinist? Do they accept the words of the Teacher, "What you do > for the least of these you do for Me." Not that I've noticed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_of_Calvinism Start with total depravity and go downhill from there. I was a Cub Scout and when they said 'go to church with your family' I made the fatal mistake of asking 'What is church?' I was immediately signed up for 'religious instruction'. There were two churches in town Catholic and Dutch Reformed. My father was Catholic, albeit excommunicated for marrying my mother, so I got that flavor. My mother, forestalling my whining 'Why do I have to go to church? You don't go!', went the the Reformed church although she never took it seriously. Theoretically Reformed don't smoke, drink, play cards, gamble, or have much fun. They raise money with bake sales. The Catholic church put on a horse show that was well respected on the horse show circuit, held Las Vegas nights, and engaged in other sinful behavior. The parish had a stable and a race horse since the races at Saratoga (NY) were a big deal. The Catholic Church had a 'poor box' to fund the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul that existed to serve the poor. Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker Movement took it even further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertaining_Angels:_The_Dorothy_Day_Story That's an interesting movie about Day. For trivia Martin Sheen took his stage name in honor of Fulton J. Sheen, possibly the first TV evangelist. I'm not saying individual Calvinists don't aid the poor but it really isn't in the theology. The poor aren't the elect so why bother? Good works don't raise your heavenly social score, so why bother?