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To the Last Drop of Our Blood: A Story of Government and Religion

To the Last Drop of Our Blood: A Story of Government and Religion

Burke, Ann

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 1572587091
ISBN13: 9781572587090
Publisher: Teach Serv S
Published: Apr 11 2011
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
On a balmy evening in late summer, a thickly wooded area near the shore of Lake Geneva is filling up with men. By the time the moon is high, the woods rustle with the quiet movements of some nine hundred, all armed. Pastor Arnaud addresses the blended group of Waldensian and Huguenot volunteers. If anyone is afraid of the rack and the gallows, he tells them, they should turn back. If they wish to go on, they should sweat to fight faithfully to the death... Arnaud and the nine-hundred kneel and pray at the lake's edge. A low voice and the sound of water lapping fill the night. There are muted amen's, a shuffle, footsteps, and the swish of fifteen little boats pushing off from land. In To the Last Drop of Our Blood, Ann Burke sketches excerpts from the story of the Waldenses, a religious minority who for generations lived under the looming shadow of the religion in power. This re-telling may very well bring to mind a number of questions. - Where freedom of faith is concerned, does it matter how right the majority is? - How important is a minority? - Is it better, as someone has said, for one man to die than for a whole nation to perish? The answers we give will largely determine our future.

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