Wow, yeah. It's a really brutal doctrine -- it changes the loving nature of God and makes one wonder if they're really saved."You must have known some weird catholics in your life." Lol...I have met no more weirder than the JW's...and, I detest Calvinism...they are wresting a few scriptures and Making GOD out to be a very unjust and cruel being...which we know He is NOT!!! AAAArgh-that is the very doctrine that moved me away from the Church in the mid ninety's and I can only imagine how many souls were/are being lost because of their doctrine. My own Pastor is a Calvinist, but he does not preach/teach on it...I suspect all the others, elders, teachers...leaders of my Church are of the same belief. My guess is that he won't teach it is because he would end up with empty pews.!
I don't think there are too many around here, but on another forum I was on, I think 1/3 were calvinists. How anyone could believe those teachings, I'll never know.