I'm playing devil's advocate for a minute, so please forgive me.

Of course, atheists wouldn't see it that way. They would claim a mechanistic universe operating under natural and scientifically verifiable laws (while admitting human knowledge in this area is finite and incomplete). The bad news is, we all still die regardless. The good news is, we can use our minds in the duration of our human lives and work to improve our own condition and that of humanity as a whole.

That is the "evangel" or good news of the atheist, representing an increasingly common usage of the word "evangelical" in a non-religious sense as a metaphor for zeal (such as found in definition #5 of the Merriam-Webster definition below).

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evangelical

You have called me inconsistent on my doctrines. You are correct, sir, and I have no wish to debate you on it. I simply stated what I said as a person, of finite wisdom and intelligence, who cannot understand the mysterious plan of God in the eschatology of Darby et al. I indeed affirm God's sovereignty and supreme wisdom, and know that His plan (which includes eschatological error such as Darby's) is perfect and will ultimately bring Him the most glory. However, Calvinism does not deny that humans make legitimate choices and are free moral agents. Though I cannot rectify this idea with God's sovereignty to anyone's satisfaction (including my own), I believe the Bible teaches we make choices for which we are held responsible, though without limiting or denying God full sovereignty.

1. You find a gun in plain sight or clearly visible.
2. You shake with fear and trembling, verbally questioning its right to exist.

If you fail the test, congratulations, you are a gun nut.

Dispensationalism as best as I understand was invented in the 1830's by John Nelson Darby, a Calvinist, who brought the system to America (where shockingly enough, it was first associated with the 16th and Walnut Avenue Presbyterian church under Dr. James H. Brooks). As far as I know, Darby was solid on his soteriology, but not in eschatology. I believe that dispensationalism is an erroneous theological system. I wish Darby had either never invented Dispensationalism, or had never been a Calvinist.

For further information, see the following links produced by a quick informal Google search (which are not necessarily the best or exhaustive):

http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hinn/general.htm
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/tbn.htm
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html

Ah, don't judge a theological system by your personal experience, my friend. To accuse Calvinism of being conducive to evangelical laziness would frankly shock Spurgeon as well as several very Calvinist missionaries such as Carey and the like. You can argue that their actions betrayed their convictions, but historically I think the case can be made that these men evangelized *because* of their Calvinist convictions. They knew God had commanded all to repent and believe the Gospel, and they were faithful to that, knowing that God would also open hearts to believe the Gospel (see Acts 16:14, for example).

Yamil Luciano: I'm sorry, but I don't understand the "most people do not." Most people do not what?

Calvinists believe in evangelizing all peoples of the earth because of two things: God has ordained means (the Gospel), and that the exact identity of the elect is not and cannot be known. We Calvinists should preach with more conviction than the Arminian, because we know the efficacy of preaching the Gospel does not ultimately rest on our abilities or the willingness of others, but in the sovereign grace of God that unfailingly calls out the elect unto salvation in the timing and purposes of God.

But, election, predestination, and all of that, are NOT the gospel, of course. Those truths are meant for the study of more mature Christians (and mature Christians have intelligently disagreed for centuries over these truths, which if anything, is a testimony to the depth and complexity of the nature and workings of God). And I believe these truths must be revealed by God.

"It was ml who quoted the verse, not I."