Sir,
When I read the letters from members of the Christian clergy in Inverness and Western Isles, I am always reminded of this quote from the excellent 'Scottish Enlightenment' by Arthur Herman: "Such was Scotland as it stood at the end of the 17th century. A nation governed by a harshly repressive Kirk; a nation of unforgiving and sometimes cruel Calvinist religious faith; of trials for blasphemy and witchcraft; of a cranky even perverse contrariness in the face of an appeal to mercy or reason or even the facts."
Scotland is now in the 21st century but attempts are made continually to drag us backwards.
Alistair McBay
National Secular Society
5 Atholl Crescent
Edinburgh
Letter: “Dragging Scotland backwards”
18 June 2018