> Reminds me of the story of the committed Christian who built his house
> on a floodplain.
That reminds me of the one Appalachians tell about a Calvinist chaplain in the Civil War. When his unit came under enemy fire, he dove for cover behind a nearby tree. A skeptical officer, seeing this, asked him later, "But hasn't it been predestined whether you would have been shot or not?"
"Of course," the chaplain replied. "It was predestined that the tree would be there and that I would jump behind it."
(If nothing else, that should give you an idea about the sort of thing Calvinists in Appalachia find funny.)
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."