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Episode 81 - St Kilda, Isolation and Religion – Part 2 Religion poisons everything?


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Ed 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

 
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