The mound builders seem to have had an organized government and religion. In Canada the principal religion is Christianity. Muslims (followers of Islam) come from diverse ethnic backgrounds, speak hundreds of languages, and are the majority in 49 countries, covering the Middle East, Northern Africa, and parts of South Asia. Islam, like Christianity, and many other religions encourages its followers to embrace life after death – even if people aren’t too sure what that actually means. If so, it appears that life experience is critical to triggering and reinforcing disfluencies. Can you admit that your life has changed since you found God? I think it’s better to own your own business and pocket as much money as you can. Antoine de Bourbon had been previously killed at the siege of Rouen, and this last casualty pretty much eliminated the first generation of Catholic leadership. Henri de Navarre slept in his bridal suite with an entourage of 40 Huguenot gentlemen, all of whom were killed. Works with titles like The Defense of Liberty against Tyrants were to come off the Huguenot presses.

Maybe it should come as no surprise then that these two nations would eventually grow into the bookend superpowers that they became. So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment? No one says anything when someone coughs, blows their nose or burps, so is there some kind of special treatment going on here? God has failed. This has been going on for millions of years. Calvin himself came to the conclusion, after advocating for many years that obedience to the civil authorities was a Christian duty, that a prince that persecuted the church had forfeited his right to be obeyed. Why does their relationship remained strained after all these years? Even though the Duc de Guise had died, the Guise faction remained powerful and the Cardinal de Lorraine consolidated his power even more. Catherine de’ Medici was forced to turn to the Guise faction to deal with this alarming development. A few of his servants got into a scuffle with some Huguenots who were attending a service in a nearby building, and the whole thing escalated until the Guise faction had fired on the unarmed Huguenots, set the church on fire, and killed a number of the congregation.

However, at Jarnac, under the nominal leadership of the king’s younger brother, Henri d’Anjou, the Protestants suffered a great defeat and the Prince de Condé was killed. The Bourbon princes were Protestant (the Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre and the Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé), and although the constable de Montmorency was Catholic, his nephews, the Châtillon brothers (including Admiral de Coligny) were Protestants. At the end of it, Montmorency was dead, the crown was more in debt, and the Peace of Longjumeau was a pretty much the same as the Peace of Amboise. The noble prisoners were exchanged, and the edict of Amboise issued in March ’63. The national synod for the reformed church met in Paris and appealed to the Prince de Condé to become the “Protector of the Churches.” He, his clients, and their respective client networks took on the task, and from this point the leadership of the Huguenots moves away from the pastors towards the noble “protectors”, and takes on a more militant tone. The entire Huguenot leadership came to Paris for this wedding. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, as it came to be known, destroyed an entire generation of Huguenot leadership.

With the Huguenot heartland in the south virtually untouched and the royal treasury hemorrhaging, the crown’s position was weak and Catherine bent her efforts towards a settlement. Admiral de Coligny, now the chief military leader of the Huguenots, was welcomed into the king’s council, Elizabeth of England entertained the prospects of marriage to one of King Charles’ younger brothers, and Catherine negotiated with Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre, to marry her daughter Margeurite (Margot) to Henri de Navarre, the ranking Huguenot prince of the blood. Now let us look at God’s omniscience. To learn more about karma, reincarnation and other spiritual beliefs, look over the links on the next page. Along with these more abstract issues, tension between Catholics and Protestants had some more mundane economic and social elements. The Protestants were well dug-in in their garrisons, and the siege efforts to recapture the towns were long and costly. However, the common people felt no such harmony, and tensions grew in the towns and countryside. However, the Huguenots were threatening riot in the streets if something wasn’t done, and it was a very hot summer.