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Episode 81 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion – Part 2 Religion poisons everything?
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Show NotesEd continues relating the history of the remote isolated Scottish island of St Kilda and its amazing community. We had finished Part 1 at about 1700 AD with a kind of Utopia and a gentle folksy religion. Here we discuss its decline (our take) into a harsh, puritan, rule-bound and Calvinist kind of religion. And we ask how it could have happened and whether it’s a case of Hitchen’s “Religion poisons everything”. Links: That key book:Tom Steel, The life and death of St Kilda, 1975, Fontana. French website on St Kilda translated –www.kildaprojet.com That Napier Commission on the Outer Hebrides – interviews:https://napier-outerhebrides.blogspot.com/2010/05/st-kilda-2-june-1883-i.html Doubts Aloud Links:Please give feedback and ask questions using: [email protected]
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Show NotesEd continues relating the history of the remote isolated Scottish island of St Kilda and its amazing community. We had finished Part 1 at about 1700 AD with a kind of Utopia and a gentle folksy religion. Here we discuss its decline (our take) into a harsh, puritan, rule-bound and Calvinist kind of religion. And we ask how it could have happened and whether it’s a case of Hitchen’s “Religion poisons everything”. Links: That key book:Tom Steel, The life and death of St Kilda, 1975, Fontana. French website on St Kilda translated –www.kildaprojet.com That Napier Commission on the Outer Hebrides – interviews:https://napier-outerhebrides.blogspot.com/2010/05/st-kilda-2-june-1883-i.html Doubts Aloud Links:Please give feedback and ask questions using: [email protected]
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