The doom-merchants are at it again in Stornoway. A mini-tornado swept in by the harbour, narrowly missing the ferry terminal, on Tuesday night. The claims that God is displeased by the recent advent of Sunday ferries have resurfaced.
One worthy on Cromwell Street this morning pointed out that the damage also included a tree falling by the High Church in Matheson Road so it could hardly be an indication of God’s displeasure.
He was interrupted by a local churchman who was quick to point out that the hardline and very sabbatarian Free Church, the Free Church (Continuing) and the Free Presbyterian churches had remarkably escaped unscathed. Ooer.
That it went so very close to the ferry terminal is said to be “a warning” by many – some, happily, with tongue firmly in cheek.
I find it really sad that there are backward communities where people with views from medieval times like this are still given a platform. They and their communities are absolutely enslaved by what is just man-made mumbo-jumbo devised to keep the ignorant masses from asking too many questions of those who rule over them.
Until people realise that, they can never achieve inner peace of mind or rid themselves of the false guilt that is holding them back.
Joan Macdonald – that is a typically ignorant statement from a member of the ever growing band of liberal fundamentalist we seem to have in these islands. The ‘man-made mumbo -jumbo’ is the reason we have the right to question those who rule over us – the Reformation and the Covenanters.
Scotland is becoming an increasingly anomic society where people have no values and are drowning in alcohol and debt. “Traditional religions often provided the basis for the shared values which the anomic individual lacks” – French Sociologist Emile Durkheim.
I was the Guy With much publicised the Lets Drink On Sundays T shirt. The tornado completely missed my property but removed a large section of the roof of a devout free church member. God sure moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform