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

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Show Notes
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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