Chapter 1: What urgent discussions are introduced about Calvin and Knox?
Welcome back to Finverse History. Joining me is Horatio Gould. Hello. And this is an urgent discussion on Calvin, Knox, and our true intellectual heirs.
Yeah. When you say urgent, you mean that this is... Urgent.
I need to get this out.
All right. Okay.
I'm fired up.
Yeah, you're on the toilet.
It's been 17 hours. I can't poo.
I need to talk about John Knox and John Calvin. This has really fired you up. This is. In between these episodes, you were rifling through it. You were giggling to yourself. You're giddy. You're like a madman.
This is my heritage. This is my psychological architecture. He is the architect. You know the end of The Matrix where he meets the architect? Yeah. That's me meeting John Calvin.
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Chapter 2: How does Calvin's perspective differ from Luther's?
The Muscle Wine Set, rather than the Hustle Grind Set.
What's the Muscle? Like, is it Muscle's the food? More free. Right, yeah. It's the Muscle Wine Set.
I think the Hustle Wine Set's probably better. No, I like Muscle Wine Set. Muscle, but, yeah.
Is it Muscles? Yeah, I guess so.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Affair of the Placards?
No, no, no. It's too much like that. I think it's the, they're waking up drinking wine.
Truffle Wine Set. Truffle Wine Set's quite good. Truffle Wine Set is good. It's less hustle grinds it, more truffle wines it. That is good. We got there in the end. A couple of plays and misses, but we got there.
You've had a couple of misses this series, but you've opened this episode with a corker.
A crisp one, yeah. So Jean de Calvin, the bravest Frenchman, the only brave Frenchman, you could say.
The only one you could shake his hand without surrendering.
Exactly, yeah. You go shake his hand and he actually shakes it. Oh, no, please, I'm sorry. Take my wife, please. Um...
He does not have springs under his arms. He has no movement in his arms. His arms don't move. No. He's completely disabled. It's Stephen Hawkins.
Stephen Hawkins. The most prostitute man that's ever lived.
Stephen Hawkins. I mean, that guy can't surrender.
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Chapter 4: How did John Knox's experiences shape his beliefs?
He's very frail, but he converts to prostitutism, which is not really the done thing in France. There is a thing called the Affair of the Placards. Right. So this is in the 1530s. Which is as exciting as it sounds. It is riveting stuff. Yeah, no, listen. The Clash of the Lanyards. Yeah, it's not. Although there is a big lanyard clash culturally. Where?
In that there are people who wear them who are either autistic, disabled or gay. And then there's people who don't.
Today, there is a clash of the lanyards. I did see, there's this Telegraph podcast that's making me laugh a lot.
Oh, with Camilla? Yeah, it's making me laugh.
Because, I don't know, I've really been enjoying Telegraph headlines and it's just... You keep saying them to me.
They're really funny.
Yeah, they are funny. Some of them. I'll get some of them up. But, yeah, they're talking about that it's, yeah, that there's like a new class clash between the lanyards and the non-lanyarded.
Did they actually say that?
I was joking, Christ. They're saying this with a very intellectual, intelligent way, everything that we joke about. And basically the hatred for Keir Starmer is because he represents the lanyard class.
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Chapter 5: What are the core tenets of Calvinism?
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Yes. Or wherever. Exactly. It means it's a constantly moving command centre. In between the lines. False nine.
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nor do me nor do me if you go to surfshark.com slash FVH or click the link below you will get four extra months of Surfshark don't let Keir Starmer's online threats catch you off guard keep your data safe and see you next time anyway Calvin's a French lawyer who converts to Protestantism. We get to the clash of the lanyards, the affair of the placards. It's 1534, okay?
There are Protestant reformists. They're posting placards around France, criticizing the Catholic mass. There is no way to imbue this with any drama, okay? This is 16th century liturgical disputes. It could not be less relevant to anyone today, okay? But we have to get there to talk about our intellectual forebears.
So the posters are titled true articles on the horrible, great and unbearable abuses of the papal mass.
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Chapter 6: How does Knox's return to Scotland impact the Reformation?
Is this the Beatles in Hamburg? Yeah, but the opposite of that. It's Dylan going electric, except it's Calvin going analogue. Calvin goes acoustic. Unplugs everything and goes, it's all too loud. So he goes to Geneva and he starts preaching.
And Calvin's big thing, okay, is that whereas Luther said that everyone is a sinner, we're all in the gutter, but through your own internal consciousness and belief and faith, you can reach salvation. Calvin says, nah. Listen, God is all powerful. He's already decided who is going to heaven and who's not.
And what you can do is you can try and find signs in someone's morals or behavior if they are chosen or not. So this is the birth of fat shaming. It's fatness as a moral sin. Calvin is going, you're not chosen for salvation because you're fatty.
That's where this starts. So would you say Britain's fat families, can we get some of that up, please? Would you say this is playing on a Calvinist tradition?
I'm saying it is impossible in a world without Calvin. Okay, that's what I'm saying.
Okay, so it's putting all the responsibility on the person, but it's not their fault in a way, because being predestined to be fat, immoral, slob.
Well, in some ways, yes, but you can still work, and you should work to try and prove that God has chosen you.
But if he hasn't chosen you, there's nothing you can do about it.
Well, that's not a Calvinist attitude.
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Chapter 7: What role did women play in the Reformation according to Knox?
If you're measuring your son's erections and then being kind of pissed off that they're two minutes firmer than yours.
Listen, we all have, it's hard to make a relationship with father-son, you know, father-son bonding is difficult.
If you're not football fans.
If you're not football, exactly. So, you know, measuring each other's boners is just one. And not just like how big they are, the stamina. Yeah. How are they... Let's just break that. How are they... Are they jacking off? Like, what are they doing to measure their... It's nighttime erection data.
I imagine, if I know Brian Johnson, he will have a custom-made ring that goes around his knob.
A wearable penis tracker.
Penile tracker. Sorry? It's a penile tracker. Penile tracker. Yeah. A Fitbit for your penis.
Yeah. It's like a whoop... It's like a whoop band.
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Chapter 8: What are the lasting effects of Calvinism on modern society?
Zuber. Yeah.
He escaped from Zuber. He was locked up for 10 years in Zuber. You know, IPAs aren't doing that. Brewdog, you know. A Dachau pale ale. Now you're talking. Now you're talking. Pint of Sachsenhausen, please. Anyway, so John Knox is a, he starts, and this just sums up This just sums up Scottish culture. He starts as a fucking bodyguard.
He's a bodyguard to a Protestant preacher called George Wishart. And he holds a massive broadsword. And then Wishart gets arrested in 1545. And then he gets assassinated, I think. He gets executed. And he's devastated. So Knox sort of goes on a bit of a rampage. And then he gets captured by the French forces at St. Andrews. He then gets made a slave.
white slave he's a white slave and he's scottish i mean i'm trying to find slavery in my heritage right um anyway so john knox is forced to row in french galleys for 19 months but because he's fucking calvinist he loves it he loves that shit he loves it it's brilliant you can't touch me yeah what do you mean what my punishment is to do more work brilliant brilliant
He then, when he's released, he flees to Geneva and he becomes Calvin's student, right? So it's while in exile in Geneva in 1558 that he writes the first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiments of women.
this book sources he says women can't be rulers right because at the time Scotland is Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth the first is on the throne I think 1558 yeah so for him it's upside down world the world's gone insane yes it is the world's gone mad this is fucked
LBC, everyone is calling in. What times are we living in? This is mental.
LBC is impossible in a world without Knox. Yeah. Okay. So he writes a book saying women should not rule. This is madness. Okay. And then Elizabeth I... Oh, she takes the throne just shortly after that. And then he goes, well, no, you're the exception because you're a bloke, really. You look like a bloke. So he then comes back to Scotland and...
in 1559 having, you know, drunk from the teat of Calvin in Switzerland.
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