The Ball and the Cross

G. K. Chesterton

Language: English

Description:

A story about a religious duel.  The duelists shake the modern world to its core.  The antichrist fears the fiercest fighters.

"The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only things worth fighting about. I say that murder is a sin, and bloodshed is not, and that there is as much difference between those words as there is between the word 'yes' and the word 'no'; or rather more difference, for 'yes' and 'no', at least, belong to the same category. Murder is a spiritual incident. Bloodshed is a physical incident. A surgeon commits bloodshed."