![]() ![]() At least that's how it was notoriously inclined to work. If you're a member of the elect, you are really not capable of doing bad things. ![]() That's important because unlike other faiths, the Calvinist strain of Protestant Christianity, if you do it right, it's guilt free. The upside is that you are given the Calvinists sense of belonging to the elect. None of the upside but some of the downside. So I was in effect brought up as a Calvinist, but without the comfort of the existence of God. So I was raised a devout atheist by two people who were raised Presbyterians. Glasgow was a microcosm of Northern Ireland. But they both left the Church of Scotland before I was born, in a protest against the sectarianism that bedeviled life in Glasgow as it bedeviled life in Northern Ireland. ![]() I was raised an atheist by my parents who were Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian. I did a huge interview with Tom Holland about it, and you had one with a Catholic magazine, wherein you mentioned you were raised in the Church of Scotland. Recently I've been obsessed with religion and Christianity. ![]()
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