an overgrowing fanatic belief that the religious community to which one belonged represented that part of mankind which had been chosen by God. Calvin’s theory of predestination has one implication which should be explicitly mentioned here, since it has found its most vigorous revival in Nazi ideology: the principle of the basic inequality of men. For Calvin there are two kinds of people—those who are saved and those who are destined to eternal damnation.
Choseness as toxic ideology
