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| − | + | '''Libertine''', from the Latin word meaning freemen, was the name given by [[John Calvin]] to his opponents in [[Geneva]], mostly from rich and established families, who believed that the city should not be under religious control and that non-Calvinists should not be subject to Calvinist religious law, as well as claiming that the Consistory of Geneva, which was the religious governing body in Calvinist Geneva, had no right to excommunicate Genevans. Calvin's struggles with the Libertines made up most of the conflict he faced in Geneva, as they controlled much of Geneva's government, and it was not until the mass migration of French Calvinist refugees to Geneva that control of the government slipped out of their control. | |
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| + | Because of Calvin's opposition to the Libertines, the term has been made into a term of abuse, and the term is currently used to refer to someone with no morality, completely selfish and non empathetic, who has no other goal than the pursuit of sexual pleasure. The stereotype of a Libertine is of a male atheist, who takes pleasure in blasphemy (perhaps to convince themselves that they are not damned). Libertines, according to this definition, engage in indiscriminate sex with both men and women, and even engage in other paraphillias. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
*[[Atheism and morality]] | *[[Atheism and morality]] | ||
*[[Moral failures of the atheist population]] | *[[Moral failures of the atheist population]] | ||
| − | + | *[[Calvinism]] | |
| + | *[[Reformation]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Revision as of 15:53, July 24, 2016
Libertine, from the Latin word meaning freemen, was the name given by John Calvin to his opponents in Geneva, mostly from rich and established families, who believed that the city should not be under religious control and that non-Calvinists should not be subject to Calvinist religious law, as well as claiming that the Consistory of Geneva, which was the religious governing body in Calvinist Geneva, had no right to excommunicate Genevans. Calvin's struggles with the Libertines made up most of the conflict he faced in Geneva, as they controlled much of Geneva's government, and it was not until the mass migration of French Calvinist refugees to Geneva that control of the government slipped out of their control.
Because of Calvin's opposition to the Libertines, the term has been made into a term of abuse, and the term is currently used to refer to someone with no morality, completely selfish and non empathetic, who has no other goal than the pursuit of sexual pleasure. The stereotype of a Libertine is of a male atheist, who takes pleasure in blasphemy (perhaps to convince themselves that they are not damned). Libertines, according to this definition, engage in indiscriminate sex with both men and women, and even engage in other paraphillias.
