is your faith shipwrecked today?
I was reading a story the other day about a type of Pirate (one who would sink and plunder ships) and I had never heard of this type of piracy before. They were called “wreckers”. Wreckers were men who would try to lure Ships at sea into the rocks off the coast causing the ship to wreck. In fact, there are legends that hundreds of years ago on the coast of Cornwall, there were wreckers that would tie lanterns onto the heads of Donkey’s and move the animals along the high cliffs that border the shore. The purpose of doing that was to cause the mariners to think that the light was from another ship, which in turn would be a signal that it was safe to travel towards the light. But when ships at sea would see these false lights and believe them to be guides into the safe and open water, they would then proceed towards them, crash into the rocks, and be dashed into pieces. Then the wreckers would come down to the shore, and take all that they could from the wrecked ship, even killing...