Summary Of The Anatomy Of Violence By John Calvinism

John Calvin sparked a theological revolution when he introduced the practice of Calvinism during the 14th century. This ideology suggested spiritual predestination: a conclusion that man had already been picked to go to Hell or Heaven before his life had even begun. While only a few are safe from doom, Calvin’s argument established that the majority of mankind comes into this world already wicked. Humans are not born evil, for their brain does not have any type of moral comprehension or cognitive understanding of evil at the beginning. Evil grows as a product of the environment and the choices made by a person to perform wicked acts.
When a child comes into this world, he has no understanding of anything – good or bad. Children tend to spend the majority of their childhood watching and learning from peers and authoritative figures: a son simulates his carpenter father with toy tools, or a young girl watches her older cousin smoke cigarettes after

Each environment from which a person comes influences almost every single aspect about them. We as humans grow and learn from the people we acquaint ourselves with, from the events that change our perspectives, and from the things we watch and take mental notes on. The idea of potential parallel universes helps provide examples of how any and every single event that takes place in one’s life causes some sort of effect later on. Sharon Begley points out in her article, “The Anatomy of Violence,” that anyone raised in a different environment would be a totally different type of person than they actually are: “A genetically identical clone of Cho growing up with different experiences in a different environment would likely not have set an American record for mass murder” (42). When people act out in wicked ways, a cause for it always exists. A coalition of corrupt deeds leads to a person developing a propensity for evil, but those original actions are to blame for the person’s villainous aura, not their genetic