... the age of Enlightenment, when the Calvinism orthodox was at its highest level, the Church was made for the elite members, those who were already predestined to go through the golden gates of Heaven, while there were others who were forever damned to the burn in agony in Hellfire. In Calvinism, church and religion was for the exceptional, those of high class with worthier education. Also threatening the Enlightenment were the ... doctrines of Arminians, preaching that individual free will, not divine decree, was what determined a person's eternal fate, which the Puritans began to interm...

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