Quote: "Are you not aware, O Christian soldier, that when you were initiated into the mysteries of the life-giving font, you enrolled in the army of Christ, your general, to whom you twice owed your life, since he gave it and restored it to you, and to whom you owed more than to your very self. Does it not occur to you that in a solemn utterance you pledged your loyalty to such a benign commander and engaged yourself in his service...What shame, what a universal execration, as it were, is brought upon the whole human race when a man deserts his prince and commander! Why do you hold Christ, your general, in derision...why do you treacherously defect to the enemy from whom he once ransomed you at the price of his blood?" - Erasmus, Handbook of the Christian Soldier