Same with vaccinations. Antivaxers in NL fall into two groups: crunchy hippies and SGP/Dutch Reformed who see vaccinating a child against a disease as defying God's will that the child should suffer and die.
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Some go fucking apeshit and do as they please, because predestination means that Nothing Matters (the Calvinists where the first group in the modern period to be blackpilled) and nothing they do can change their fate.
Others live as biblical and pious a life as possible. A kind of Pascal's Wager: you know that God has already sealed your fate, but you have to live as if God has chosen you to go to Heaven and you have to follow His edicts. Which includes things like only reading the Bible and not watching TV.
I always find it interesting that a lot of the motorcycle racing community in The Netherlands hails from the Dutch Bible Belt. Probably because of this same sense of predestination.
But it's also big in fishing communities: Urk, Katwijk aan Zee, Scheveningen. The sea takes a lot of souls.
Personally, predestination has always struck me as a useless starting point for a moral framework. A bit like the question of free will. Does free will exist? Is our fate already written? Who fucking knows.
It's pointless acting as if we have no choice. Making our own choices gives us purpose, a sense of agency. I choose to act as if I have free will, as it's a nicer way to live. Having control over my own life (see next skeet) may be entirely illusory, but it's a much nicer way to live.
("Having control over my own life" - insofar as there are only a limited number of factors I can control. Social class, employment, pollutants produced by industry, political choices about environmental factors, genes, all these I have no control over. But I am free to make my own bad choices.)
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Some go fucking apeshit and do as they please, because predestination means that Nothing Matters (the Calvinists where the first group in the modern period to be blackpilled) and nothing they do can change their fate.
But it's also big in fishing communities: Urk, Katwijk aan Zee, Scheveningen. The sea takes a lot of souls.