Calvin Goes Acoustic | The Reformation (Part 3/4)

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1:42welcome back to finverse history joining me to ratio gould hello and this is an urgent discussion on calvin nox 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 i need to talk about john knox yeah and john calvin this has really fired you up this is in between these episodes you're rifling through it you're giggling to yourself you're giddy you're like a mad man this is my heritage yeah this is my psychological architecture right he is the architect you know the end of the matrix where he meets the architect yeah that's me meeting john calvin because i'm only there's only a little bit of me so it's only it only explains a very small part of me but for you this is this is all of me i read john calvin and i just it all makes sense right with part three of our series on the reformation we've dealt with martin luther done done we've dealt with him done we've killed him killed luther now the peace of augsburg because where we left off last time, an easy truce between Lutherans and Catholics, but it left out Calvinism.

2:56Now, who, what, why is Calvin and the chipmunks? Jean Calvin, unbelievably, he's French. I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe this. I thought he was a Swiss fuck, but it turns out that hidden amongst in the toilet what I will say is that he's the bravest Frenchman who's ever lived and he's the only Frenchman whose hand I'd like to shake is Jean de Calvin but he has his name has been anglicized because it makes more sense in English than French Jean Calvin does not make sense doesn't it it's John Calvin it's not John Pork Charlie I love John Pork Jean de Calvin or John Calvin in the same way that when i watched the manosphere documentary i was like this is such an anglo-american thing i can't imagine a french man oh the dirty bitch look at my money oh like it doesn't make sense does it the little french kiss protestant manosphere in some ways yes it's about the hustle grind so yes taking going outside the matrix catholic church as you were saying yeah that's what andrew tate's saying take it basically grabbing your own life by the bootstraps and we are all fallen we're all neo in the fucking thing what was up to us how we live exactly in France it's the muscle wine set the muscle wine set rather than the hustle grind set what's the muscle like as in muscles the food more free right yeah is the muscle wine set I think the hustle wine set is probably better no I like muscle wine set muscle but yeah is it muscles yeah I guess so but it sounds like it's too much like that I think it's the they're waking up drinking wine Truffle wine set is good.

4:37It's less hustle wine set, more truffle wine set. That is good. We've got to go in the end. A couple of plays and misses, but we've got this. 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 could shake his hand and he actually shakes it. Oh, no, please, I'm sorry. Take my wife, please. He does not have springs under his arms. He has no movement in his arms. His arms don't move.

5:08No. He's completely disabled. It's Stephen Hawkins. Stephen Hawkins. The most prostituted man that's ever lived. Stephen Hawkins. That guy can't surrender. No, and he lives a very Calvinist life. Well, well. There's not much pleasure. Let's get a photo of him up on Epstein's Island, which I thought was AI. No, yeah. This is the first time I've been tricked by thinking something that's real is definitely AI. this is this is a this is a hawking let's get the bikinis bikini girls yeah i mean when you first found out that hawkham was there you're like well i'm sure it was something else i'm sure it's not it's not what i'm imagining because what i'm imagining is two bikini guy gals with cocktails and him in the middle uh this is john calvin when he goes to rome

5:53in that was him talking to other catholics yeah people in switzerland are like how hang on how I can't imagine you going there. You don't make sense there. And he's like, I had a fucking great time. I had a holiday for myself. Anyway. So who is John Calvin? Now, he's sort of the unsung hero of the Protestant Reformation. He is the Claude McAleely of the Protestant Reformation. Sure, so he doesn't get his flowers. Does not get his flowers. And if he doesn't want flowers, put them in the bin. He wants just a dry piece of wood or something. Calvin, he sees what Luther's doing. and if Luther's a monk, Calvin is a lawyer, okay?

6:31In that he's trying to implement a society based on Luther's teachings. Right, okay. Which Luther isn't doing. Luther's all about faith in the book. Yes. But Calvin's like, yeah, but how can we actually make this civilization? He's a pragmatist. How can we implement it? He's getting off the toilet. Off the toilet, let's get on with it. We've done poo, flush, wipe, next, done. So Calvin is born in 1509. He's a lawyer and he's in sort of northern France. And he converts to Protestantism. And bear in mind, Switzerland, which is where he'll make his name, that's in the Holy Roman Empire. And that's a bunch of city states.

7:08So it's just as loose as Germany. France is a big power. And again, this is a very confusing time. There is a great battle for the soul of France. There's a significant chance in the 16th century that France will ultimately be Protestant. I know, the French Huguenots. Which is just, I mean, the past. Imagine the sliding doors moment. It doesn't bear thinking about it. Where would England go to forget itself if France is not there? Yeah, yeah. Now, if Luther is a kind of beer drinking, sort of table thumping, pooey German. Right. Calvin is frail, intensely private, chronically ill, migraines, gout, asthma.

7:47I mean, he is sort of Hawking-esque, I suppose. he only ever eats one meal a day and he basically doesn't sleep right so a sneeze could kill him yes yeah yeah he's very frail uh but he converts to prostitutism uh which is not really the done thing in france right there is a thing called the affair of the placards right so this is in the 1530s as exciting as it sounds it is riveting stuff uh 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.

8:28Today, there is a clash with 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 sending 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, there's like a new class clash between the lanyards and the non-lanyarded. Did they actually say that? Yeah. I was joking. Christ. Yeah, no, it's great. They're saying this with a very intellectual, intelligent way, everything that we joke about.

8:58Yeah. And basically the hatred for Keir Starmer is because he represents the lanyard class. I see. And that's kind of the new division. And it's the lanyard class. They're the ones who slow down, the bureaucratic, the kind of, oh, you can't wear that, you know. And there are a lot of jobs worths. We'll get on that. There's a lot of times in this country that I do feel like you jobs worth swine. Yes. We need to get rid of this, whatever this attitude is yes no actually I can't because I'm my manager no you wouldn't yes what is that with your cinema 100 % 100 % I was watching half of the latest fucking 28 years later really enjoying it in the best cinema this new amazing cinema in Leicester Square if I can finish halfway through it just the picture went so sorry we're gone I realised that it was across the road they were showing it and it started 45 minutes later we were 45 minutes at the film I tried to go in to see it um and they're saying sorry with the the tails closed it's like lad just let us in like yeah we told you this whole story and he says i'm like is it full he's like no there's loads of room i was like we'll just like let us in just let us in no because um my manager might see on cctv it's like i wanted to call him a swine you're a swine and a cow did he have a lanyard on of course he did he had rectangle glasses right you know that that's like yeah there's no way this person can ever think for himself.

10:15There's no free thinker. Yes. How's the rectangle? You mean like Sven Gore and Ericsson? Sort of. Images. Scroll down. Yeah, those ones there. See that one? No, no, that one. Yeah. There's no way that this person has had any individual thought. My father-in-law wears those glasses. And he has a lot of ideas. Okay, fine. Yeah. They're mainly about bands down in the Surrey area. Oh, yeah, of course. He's a counselor. He is a councillor. And in the recent local elections, the Lib Dems had a surge and he sent a GIF on the family WhatsApp of an AI Lib Dem bird going, ah, with a yellow cloak. Is he a Lib Dem councillor?

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14:23It'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 yeah okay but we have to get there to talk about our intellectual forebends so the posters are titled true articles on the horrible great and unbearable abuses of the papal mass right so these are kind of people who are talking about Chinese organ harvesting outside the British Museum do you know I mean yeah there you know there's people with like photos of like yeah I do know that I mean there's all around Trafalgar Square there's like the people trying to get the Iranian royalists in there's like people saying like convert the end is nigh there's a whole mixture of them I don't want to be uh insensitive sure but where does organ harvesting end and chinese cuisine begin it's a famine cuisine they are they're eating anything yeah right so at what point is it just harvesting yeah don't you know they're chinese yeah what you should say it's called harvesting it's their harvest it's how they make food all right that's like you're saying it's culturally insensitive i think it is to complain about chinese organ i'm a big cultural relativist you are okay Every culture is of equal value.

15:49Saying you can't harvest organs in China is like saying you cannot do a wassail in a Surrey orchard. Sure. Another thing my father-in-law has massively violent opinions on. What? He's a big pro wassail guy. What is a wassail? Blackface and all. Wassail is a pagan apple harvest festival where they black up, but in a good way. Oh, right. Positive. Positive blackface. Robert Downey Jr. stuff. Right, okay. It's so funny that it's fine. so the affair of the placards basically a bunch of french protestants which i realize is a is a contradiction in terms yeah they uh put placards everywhere all over france and the previously tolerant king i don't know which king uh he goes so much for the tolerant king this is too much placards are you taking the piss um and so he clamps down on uh the reformers uh which means John Calvin flees France to Geneva.

16:44Now, we get to Calvin in Geneva, 1537. This is where he basically starts preaching his sort of sense of like more extreme Lutheranism. Is this the Beatles in Hamburg? Yeah, yeah, but the opposite of that. It's Dylan going electric, except it's Calvin going analogue. Calvin goes acoustic. right uh unplugs everything and goes it's all too loud okay so he goes to geneva and he starts preaching uh and calvin's big thing okay is that uh 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 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 okay it's fatness as more as a moral sin calvin is going you're not chosen for salvation because you're fatty that's 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 it's it's putting all the responsibility on the person but it's not their fault in a way because being predestined to be there to be fat immoral but you slob you well in some ways yes but you can still uh work and you should work to try and prove that you that god has chosen you but if if he hasn't chosen you there's nothing you can do about it well that's not a calvinist attitude no that's a catholic attitude or maybe a lutheran one but he still thinks it's all predetermined so whatever will whatever happens was always going to happen so uh calvin is starting to attach uh morality to and like in a religious sense to how people act in the in like in their lives right so whereas Luther's saying it's all an internal process.

19:05The conscience. The inner conscience. Calvin's saying... Actions. Actions speak louder than words. Okay. Okay? Fridges speak louder than empty cupboards. It's almost like thinking is too spiritual for Calvin. Exactly. Even that's too much. Prove yourself. I don't know what you're thinking. Yeah. How can I? I'm not a mind reader. That's magic. I can see you're very fat. What did he say? It's not who you are, but what you do that defines you. Yeah. So he's a Calvinist. It's who you eat. Yeah. It's what you eat. So Calvin believes in, he doesn't believe in transubstantiation. So the water into wine, that's all bollocks.

19:40That's all bollocks. The God and the Bible is obviously, he agrees with Luther that that's the main source. The church is bollocks. But he thinks that you should build a society where people are trying to, in a sense, prove that they're worthy of salvation. Right. Okay. So that's where he's getting up at 4 a.m. He's Mark Wahlberg. Yes. he's he's the grind set yeah okay no catholic is getting up at 4 a.m it is the the protestant hours there's no it is and the clock probably they're eating dinner at 10 you get two hours apiece you get more than that there is a time difference between you go around the clock the protestant hours are the night hours and then at what 10 a.m you'd say the catholic hours begin right about 10 p.m right okay which is where they have dinner yeah but the protestants are in bed they're tucked up they're at dinner at 6pm exactly because as Brian Johnson said one of the most Presbyterian men there are possible yeah definitely does not want to die well the guy who measures his cum the guy who measures his cum is about as Presbyterian as it gets right because he doesn't want to die because he thinks there's nothing there right right so the Catholics they're not there they're even done dinner too late and what Brian Johnson says you should leave about four and a half hours between your final meal and going to sleep so this is the birth of the least spiritual people on the planet.

21:01There's just nowhere else in the world that this has really come at all. And I guess there's like Buddhism, which is like minimal and stuff, but this sense of earthiness and groundedness is completely unique here. Just breaking news, Brian Johnson's got some nighttime erection data from my 19-year-old son. His duration is two minutes longer than mine. Raise children, just stand tall, be firm and be upright. I've come around to Brian Johnson. At first he pissed me off, but I think he's now gone so far that he's quite, he's pretty good value. I think. If you're measuring your son's erections and then being kind of pissed off that they're two minutes firmer than yours.

21:38Listen, 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 to i imagine if i know brian johnson he will have a custom made ring that goes around 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 uh it's like a whoop band right for your dick yeah firm tech tech ring so you've got father son whoop dick bands and you're you're measuring each other's nighttime erections that's bonding it's like a dual shot what's that dual shot thing again quick shot quick shot and then you weigh your tech ring afterwards to go to bed right yes 275 pounds so I guess yes it's sort of the final frontier of biohacking is where you and your son pop on some tech cock rings wearable penile measuring rings and then you wake up in the morning and over breakfast you compare erection data men love stats they do they do they do you know I pray for the women in that household.

22:57I really do. Can we talk about something else? Please. Guys, guys. And Brian's there like, oh, why don't you measure your own vaginal wetness? Why don't you fucking shove a data collecting tampon up there? Yeah. Who's got the dryest vagina out of both of you?

23:17So Calvin believes in simplicity and worship. So he's actually the boring one. Is he the guy who comes up with this? Yeah. He's the boring one, right? Luther's actually a bit of a laugh. sure right yeah because he even by the end we didn't talk about it he's a fat he's a sausage he gets really fat by the end beer drinking constipated like so calvin seeing this being like i don't think you're the guy mate you're on the toilet you're a fat fuck stuck in the toilet you're not you're not jesus he's elvis bresley he's elvis he's german elvis on the toilet in the 16th century eating burgers right whereas and calvin's going i don't know man i think so in Geneva, what he does is he basically creates the boring Protestant utopia.

23:58Which is why Geneva today is like it is. Obsessed with time, clocks and accuracy. And Swiss people are some of the most boring people you ever meet. Yeah. I mean, it's the boring lands. It's so dull. I did a tour of Switzerland like 12 years ago with Dane Baptiste. Everything works. Everything's clean. Everything's nice. nothing fun but it has no character at all no vibe at all it's just clocks yeah right I did we were driven around the most interesting about it was we were driven around by a guy who smoked so much weed that he had he also had those he was slightly cross-eyed had those eyes that made you look the glasses make your eyes look massive but he'd look at us in the rear view mirror and he'd be talking about like conspiracy theories how like the government were out to get him so he had to move to Switzerland and stuff but like his eyes were like flooding the fucking rear view mirror he's out he was the most interesting about Switzerland it's so dull but that's because Calvin Calvin makes it this just ideal ordered unchaotic society so he gets he gets banished from Geneva right quite early on then in 1541 he's asked to return because of this growing religious unrest in the city and then the council of Geneva passes the ecclesiastical ordinances based on Calvin's proposal for reform come with me now Yeah, ladies, have you packed some spare pants, okay?

25:26Sorry, I did not warn you that we were talking about the ecclesiastical ordinances of 1541 Geneva. All right? They call for a restructuring of the Geneva Church with ministers being split into pastors, doctors, elders, and deacons. Right. Which basically means, again, it's less power in the church itself. his teachings becomes calvinism right which is uh denies that the body and blood uh that's all bollocks uh this then starts unlikely he's doubting those numbers yeah yeah he's a big yeah he's a he's questioning everything yeah i mean he's a he's a eucharist denier he is as am i i must say i'm a proud eucharist denier um there's no way that's his body no way there's no way there's so many parts that he's so much wine that's all his blood now he's bothering about in Switzerland now when he dies he becomes he gets buried in an unmarked grave of course he's my bin Laden because he doesn't want to become a martyr right and he doesn't want to become a site of religious pilgrimage but he says that because he doesn't want anyone it's not about him it's about God because that's the thing is that there's not these huge figures in protestantism in the same way there's not cult of personalities no it's not like people it's the cult of no personality yeah no one's got loads of pictures of calvin saying i fucking love calvin yeah like there's none of that stuff at all i do i have a picture of calvin in my toilet right because he's my picture of luther on the toilet in my toilet.

27:03So Calvin is the guy from whom, you know, you'd say anglicized Protestantism comes from. Right. We're not Lutheran, really. We're Calvinist, because a lot of Calvinist reformers go to Britain, especially into Scotland. And this is where we get to the second hero of the story, John Knox. So John Knox is a Roman Catholic minister in, I want to say, the early 1540s. Scott. We should place this, actually. Should we place 1540s? 1540s in Scotland. Christ. So this is after William Wallace. Yes. And it's before, I want to say it's before whiskey. I think we're still in pre-whiskey Scotland in the 16th century.

27:5113th to the 15th century. Damn. Is it? Okay. Before Iron Brew. It's definitely before. It's after whiskey. It's before Iron Brew. Yeah. 1901 pretty old yeah and when's tisky invented 1629 shit so it's it's after whiskey before tisky charlie got another rhyming one that's pretty good that's pretty good tisky 1629 i love tisky i fucking love tisky that's good you know i like about i've realized what i like i like a beer where it sounds like it could be a concentration camp you haven't heard of I mean Tisky Tisky yeah he liberated Tisky it really fucked him up exactly he was one of the gods half a Birkenau please you know it it you know the craft beer Auschwitz IPA please yeah exactly Zuba Zuba Zuba could be a terrible place Zuba yeah he escaped from Zuba he was locked up for 10 years in Zuba you know IPAs aren't doing that yeah Brewdog you know Dachau Pale Ale Now you're talking.

28:54Now you're talking. Pint of Saxenhausen, 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, right? 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.

29:44Right. 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 regiment of women. This book, he says, women can't be rulers. Right. Because at the time, Scotland is ruled by Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I is on the throne, I think, 1558?

30:32Yeah. 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 uh and then elizabeth the first oh she takes his throne just shortly after that and then he goes well i'm not no you're the exception because you're you're a bloke really yeah you look like a bloke um so uh he then comes back to uh scotland uh in 1559 having you know drunk from the teat of calvin in switzerland and when he arrives in Scotland's much like the rat landing in Venice to start the Black Death, but instead it's...

31:18Don't call us that. Sorry. Don't call us that. You're saying Presbyterianism is the Black Death. I'm saying if you view boringness as a sort of disease, then in that sense... Or as a medicine. To your Catholic disease of opulence and light and paintings. Right, right, right. So, yeah, this is... What is it? It's not laxatives. It's... Imodium. It's Imodium. yeah Knox is a modium

31:47let's just cork that ass up alright John Knox is literally yeah a modium arriving on a ship so Knox comes back to Scotland to cork up Scotland yeah and he's he's fired up by Calvinism but he thinks because this is why Scottish people are the way they are remember the Scottish history is blue faced fucking Celtic yeah Britons as I said I don't relate to any of the William Wallace stuff they've basically been the Taliban firing fucking naked the Taliban I don't yeah I don't relate to it all. This is where I start to feel Scottish. Right. Yeah. Okay. And it's all from a French guy. Crazy. Crazy. A French guy via Switzerland.

32:24Anyway. So Knox comes back to Scotland and begins the Scottish Reformation. He starts these massive tub-thumping ceremonies, preaching in St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh. Get a photo of that up, Charlie. St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh, which is where my parents got married. Wow. Wow. that's how much this is in my bones my parents got married at Knox's church and he's there going like these church this church needs to be way more boring right fuck it all off he he's saying I want a plain room he's literally I just want white walls I want to sit in the garage well yeah I guess it's this kind of brand of Protestantism is it's it's a divorced dad right he's they divorce from Catholicism yeah and you go to visit You're not from a divorced family, but that moment you first visit your dad after the divorce, white walls.

33:18They haven't had... They've had a woman in their life for like over a decade. Yes, yes. So they don't know what to do. They're fucking eating eggs and that's it. Yeah. So this is what the churches have become. It's very much symbolic of the divorced dad's new apartment. Charlie, can you find the photo? There's a photo of men who live on their own interior design. It's pretty funny. Yeah. This is what all churches look like. Yeah, this is a Lutheran church. This is a Presbyterian church. It's basically just a computer, a computer chair, and then like a rack of weights. That's it, look. That's it.

33:50Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is John Knox's church, right? This is where my parents got married. It's a windowless room with strip lighting, a computer chair, a desk, a bin, and that's it. That's it. That's all you need. There's a God in that room. That's all you need, yeah. All you need. Go on top here. Yeah. Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times. Your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks, and lists can easily begin to overrun your life. So finding the right tool that not only helps you out, but simplifies everything as a built-in business partner can be a game changer.