Catholic Apologist Dr. Art Sippo Says: Calvinists Are Psychotics

James Swan has posted a great article showing that Roman Catholic apologist Art Sippo does not argue fairly. In trying to use psychology to discredit Martin Luther, Sippo manages to to take a swipe at Calvinism. Swan quoted Sippo:

My charge that Luther was flagrantly psychotic when he wrote [The Bondage of the Will] is a clinical one. Luther makes a number of seriosuly[sic] disturbed remarks in this book. Among them, he actually says that the human mind is like a horse with an empty saddle and that either God or the Devil rides in it. This is clearly not the perception of a normal human mind. When I studied psychiatry in med school the professor told us "There are only 2 kinds of people who deny free will: psychotics and Calvinists." In my experience, there is only ONE kind of person. [source]

I read The Bondage of the Will and I see no evidence of that at all. In addition Martin Luther's work pre-dated John Calvin! Martin Luther was not a Calvinist. Swan did a great job to showing that Sippo misquoted Luther and I totally disagree that denying free will is crazy and that isn't really what Calvinism does. Just like its stupid to accuse all Arminians and non-Calvinists of denying God's sovereignty and saying that we get to tell God what we are going to do. These are gross over simplifications. we need to pray for Dr. Sippo.

Catholic Apologist Dr. Art Sippo Says: Calvinists Are Psychotics