About the Mormon church on the island I vaguely remember a rumour: there were too few Mormons on the island to form a congregation, but the church sent missionaries. One missionary got a local girl pregnant and he stayed and married and raised a family. This helped boost the numbers and a small congregstjon was formed. No idea the veracity of that story.
Hebridean island set for first mosque
by 88JM 18 Replies latest members politics
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steve2
One missionary got a local girl pregnant and he stayed and married and raised a family. This helped boost the numbers and a small congregstjon was formed. No idea the veracity of that story.
This is the type of story JWs loved to spread about Mormons and perhaps even "invented" or embellished. But I guess the Mormons would also have their favorite stories about JWs too.
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88JM
Jehovah's Witnesses are listed twice but both locations are respectively 96km and 267 km from Stornoway.
Looking at the distances on the map, potentially correlates with the congregation hall over on Skye, and the further distance would be something like Perth or Helensburgh - maybe an address for the circuit or district, though Stornaway is now in the north circuit with Inverness/Dingwall area.
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slimboyfat
Steve you are no doubt right it has all the hallmarks of urban legend and fits rather neatly into preconceived biases. At the same time it no doubt does happen from time to time, so it's not out of the question either. Like I say, I don't know, it's just a story I remember hearing.
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darkspilver
Hey slimboyfat - gotta ask - are you bilingual? Scottish Gaelic
I noticed on Google Streetview all the road names and road signs seem to be biligual.
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slimboyfat
I'm not bilingual in the slightest. Most Gaelic speakers in the world live on the Isle of Lewis, still only a few thousand. Yes all the streets and other signage is Gaelic on Lewis where probably around half the population speak the language. In the rest of Scotland Gaelic signs are also common (somewhat controversially) even where Gaelic is hardly spoken at all.
The church has a mixed history of with Gaelic language. As I understand it at one time the Kirk tried to suppress Gaelic, but ironically now Gaelic has strong connection in particular with the free church on Lewis with lots of Bibles and sermons published in Gaelic, plus of course famous Gaelic psalm singing which is beautiful.
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darkspilver
I'm not bilingual in the slightest.
haha, now I'm disappointed!
thanks for the info/video, interesting
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steve2
I was once bilingual - but I saw a good therapist and now I'm monolingual. If I can do it, you can too.
New system here I come!
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darkspilver
haha Polari?