God Needs Men (Paul Graetz] goes back a hundred years to tell an absorbing story of the hardy islanders of Sein, off France's Brittany coast, who used to pray for shipwrecks to augment their bare subsistence from the sea. Sometimes they helped their prayers along by luring ships on to the rocks. But when the tiny island's single priest gave up his flock as incorrigible sinners and returned to the mainland, it was unthinkable for the Godfearing islanders to give up their religion. In a curious mixture of devotion and sacrilege, they drafted...
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