I made a meme about Calvinism.
Specifically its doctrine of exhaustive divine determinism. (Which Calvinists tend to call God's "sovereignty".)
R.C. Sproul once said that God has meticulously decreed and controlled every atom in the universe throughout all time. And if there was a single "rogue molecule", then God's sovereignty would be negated.
So in the Calvinist system, the thoughts, actions, and words of every human to ever live were all decreed by God before the foundation of the world.
And yet somehow humans exercise enough "free will" to make them guilty of the sins they commit, and God - though He is the first cause of all things - is not held responsible as the author of those sins.
On the contrary, the Calvinist God is worthy of all glory because He has pre-elected a few human beings to experience His love and grace for eternity. (The others He created for the sole purpose of damning - for the sins they committed by His decree from the foundation of the world.)
Not sure how all that fits together exactly!
To me it looks like this:
(In the original Simpsons episode, Homer was toasting "alcohol".)
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