Personality Profile of the Typical Calvinist?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:18 am
Someone sent me this interesting link, and associated quote, about the personality profile of the average Calvinist. It may seem like an over-generalization, or even an ad hominem attack, but, in all honesty, it seemed fairly accurate, so far as my experience would confirm. What do you think?
http://peterlumpkins.typepad.com/peter_ ... -owen.html"Calvinism today seems to appeal mostly to a certain sort of personality, and that personality is not always healthy. I have discovered that the person who really spends a lot of time talking about the "doctrines of grace," tends to fit a typical profile. They tend to be male (rarely do you find women sitting around arguing about the details of TULIP), intellectually arrogant, argumentative, insecure (and therefore intolerant), and prone to constructing straw-man arguments. In order for the typical Calvinist's faith to remain secure, he seems to feel the need to imagine all others outside his theological box as evil, uninformed, or just plain stupid. I have seen this in men of all ages, some Baptist, some Presbyterian, some laymen, some ordained ministers."