A MUTATIONS

Once we just were, then we were pagans, then we got Christ, but that started to stagnate so some four hundred years ago my ancestors joined up with the Mennonites in Holland, a pacifistic utopianisitic tightly knit religious community that was trying to live by the true core tenets of Christ's teachings, rejecting the excesses of what they saw as a corrupted Christian faith.

When the Dutch government asked them to go to war they refused, and to avoid forced service they moved to the Caspian area of Russia, where that government promised them that they would never have to fight.

They lived in peace for several hundred years, maintaining their isolation and their ideals, until again told that they would have to fight.

This time they moved, en masse, to the New World, Canada.

MUTATIONS THEN AND NOW