Calvin Worship And I Don’t Mean The Associate of Hobbes (I ♥ Calvin)

07.10.09 Culture, Observations 4 comments

This post is for all my religious readers. And I don’t mean those who read this blog religiously—if you do, you have problems! Go away.

No, this post is for the religious, those who are in the practice of worshiping (by some definitions this would include all humans), anyway, this post is about Calvin Worship. For some odd reason the Patriarch of the Protestants, the Rock-star of the “Reformed” appears to be worshiped these days with his five-hundredth birthday approaching, while little old Luther and his 95 feces… er, I mean THESES are neglected.

See the lavish praise bestowed on his highness:

• There is beer IN HIS NAME
• There are birthday countdown clocks for your facebooks and blogs
• There are over 14 conferences IN HIS NAME this year
• There’s a school dedicated to HIS NAME

You’d think the man authored Bible 2.0… oh, wait some people actually might believe he did. I wonder what Calvin would think of his worshipers… er, followers today?