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"The Calvinists didn't believe that power corrupts man, but that man corrupts power. Man is a sinner by nature and therefore cannot be trusted with power. Only a true fear of God, they believed, can hold sinful man in check."

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Interesting, because Lord Acton, a Roman Catholic, famously said "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Is this a difference between a Calvinist view of power and a Catholic view? 🤔

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John 1y ago

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."--Frank Herbert.

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