Originally Posted by
Femme*
the Calvinist/Reformed folks I know believe that it's satan who blinds people.
I am sure, as I have discovered, that there are a variety of people that wear the label "Calvinist" and "reformed". I can easily read books by representatives of the Calvinist persuasion who say that Calvinists believe __________ while talking to someone else (primarily over the web) who will say, "Huh? We don't believe that."
Now, it may be that many of today's reformed are inconsistent in their positions (believing that God decrees all that happens while denying that He actually is involved in certain things) but there was never anyone more consistent in this position than the founder of Calvinism, John Calvin himself:
“And it at once adds that they are not able to believe, for it is written again, ‘Blind the heart of this people’ (Isa. 6:10). Christ has the same purpose when He attributes it to the secret counsel of God that the truth of the Gospel is not revealed indiscriminately to all but is put forward under enigmas and remotely so that thicker darkness will cover the minds of the people. I agree it is always true that those whom God blinds deserve this punishment.” (Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, A Harmony of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke, Vol. II, pp.66-67)
“‘He has…deadened their hearts.’ Through these words he intends his Word to be a punishment to the reprobates, that it may make their blindness worse and plunge them into deeper darkness.” (John: Calvin, The Crossway Classic Commentaries, p.311, emphasis mine)