Updated: Alana L. 5R (no freedom needed)
Point #5 still (updated) : R: "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign." [A continuation of the last post on "robots" , with more quotes to show what I mean.] Not only do Calvinists believe that God - in His "sovereignty" - predetermines/orchestrates our sins but then punishes us for sinning, but they also believe (and this is downright crazy to me) that true human freedom is not even a necessary condition for accountability and responsibility. They don't think that we need to have the real ability to make real free decisions among real options in order for God to hold us truly responsible for what we do. But they think that we can be held accountable for sin simply because we had the desire to disobey God, because we did what we "wanted" to do - even though, in Calvinism, God determined we'd want to do it. Reformed commenter Tiny-Development3598 said this in a...