Old Time Calvinism

[John] Knox and his lieutenants also imposed the new rules of the Calvinist Sabbath on Scottish Society: no working (people could be arrested for plucking a chicken on Sunday), no dancing, and no playing of the pipes. Gambling, cajrdplaying, and the theater were banned. No one could move out of a parish without written permission of the minister. The Kirk wiped out all traditional forms of collective fun, such as Carnival, Maytime celebrations, mumming, and Passion plays. Fornication brought punishment and exile; adultery meant death. The church courts, or kirk-sessions, enforced the law with scourges, pillories, branks (a padlocked iron helmet that forced an iron plate into the mouth of a convicted liar of blasphemer), ducking stools, banishment, and, in the case of witches or those possessed by the devil, burning at the stake.

Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, pg.16

Ah, Calvinists! Sounds very much like a cult with a lot of un-Christian teachings and behaviors.