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media type="custom" key="7961118" Calvin and his religion was focused more thoroughly on his idea of predestination more than anything else. His protestant sect believed that everyone was born evil, therefore they should come under the faith of God in order to "forgive" their sins. He also believed that everyone's actions happened because God willed it to happen, and that everyone who doesn't believe in God would be considered a fool. He says that God is the absolute of beings, and his words or actions are the most justified and righteous. Being put in context with the protestant reformation, the Calvinist weren't neccessarily popular, because they were in fact moved to the Americas where they had greater religious tolerance. They wanted to become this sect where everyone had to believe in God and had to believe in the will of God, and not just follow the decisions of the Church. They instead had to follow God's predetined paths in order to repeal their sins, in which would always be inherited by birth.

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