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Aren't Calvinists in the Netherlands?
Calvinist were in fact always in a minority in the territory that we now recognize as an Netherlands but a very formative minority so it's but nevertheless a strongly Christian country. It would have seemed eminently natural for the state to not only protect the churches plural but also to rule out things like blasphemy, he says. Now later neo-Calvinist thinkers particularly those in North America but certainly in the Netherlands this happened in the Netherlands already by the Second World War.