Unfortunately yes. My previous church Pastor died of cancer. A year later a young hot head was appointed and turned out to be a closet Calvinist. I was given the 'choice'. Quote " Knuckle under my authority to remain a member or leave". I left.
Another member was suffering from clinical depression. He was similarly bullied- not attending regularly. He committed suicide.
Sorry for your loss, and many great men of God in the world, at large, gone on, replaced by those who are not men of the whole truth, or even truth. It's so much worse these days, in the fundamentalist community.
Just like you, I'd also leave such an evil environment, so wouldn't hang around to get preached at by such a one. It's just that I've listened to many preachers and teachers even outside of church, for many years, most every day, and nobody's been talking about Calvin and those points that are so thoroughly discredited in scripture, but which you now see popping up online. In another forum, there's this SDA on a campaign.
I think the web gives a voice to lonely, cultish people, lost in doctrines of men, who wouldn't, otherwise, have any audience. In the Protestant community I know well, you start talking damned babies and God creating fortunate and unfortunate robots He expects to, nonetheless, make choices, or start talking holy vegetarianism, Torah and Saturdays, as if they're New Covenant, it's like that JW that rings the doorbell. Not only does nobody really want to hear it, a sane Christian flees it.
This whole online, raging over dead controversies, among Protestants, are like those Catholics offering their constant sales pitch to customers who've already said they're not buying, a thousand times over. The discussions, in this regard, make no sense, just people venting, often on both sides. This is more indicative of personal, perhaps sociopathic problems, certainly emotional instabilities, which are personal issues. You even see a lot of general vanity and spiritual instability in things people say to each other.
This is what the Bible says about a lot of this striving going on:
1 Timothy 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
But, like much scripture, let's not talk about such verses, when we're so busily preoccupied with unwholesome striving of words, for Jesus, of course.
