This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. –Matthew 15:8 (KJV)

I believe that Calvinism encourages people to be passive about political activism, just as it encourages lukewarm non-evangelistic preaching in the pulpit. This then opens the door for worldly anti-Christian men to take power in the government. Its always the Arminians that get politically involved for the notable causes of good: Wilberforce, the Quakers, and Wesley (abolition of slavery, Anglicans), Finney (abolition of slavery, prohibition of alcohol), Billy Sunday (prohibition of alcohol, IFB Arminian), Washington (revolution against an English tyrant, Anglican), Pat Robertson and CBN (Pentecostal Arminian), Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority (IFB Arminian), oh yeah and the Catholic Legion of Decency is what gave us all those clean TCM movies from 1935 to 1955. While the Reformed Calvinist pastors sit back, interlock their fingers, relax, trust the sovereignty of God, and benefit from all the hard work that the Arminians did with their free wills in the sphere of government, taking political action with the help of the God in whom they trust. While its true that Spurgeon spoke against slavery, he’s not known for abolitionism–Whitefield and Edwards were actually slaveowners. Too much Calvinism means political passivity and maybe even Islamic invasion! God has always intended for Christians to take responsibility in government, from Joseph, to Moses, to Joshua, to the judges, to the kings, to Daniel, to Esther, to Constantine, to Luther, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and to the founding of the United States.