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0 pointslucozade10y ago0 comments

I see your Church of Scotland and raise you a Free Church of Scotland.

I wasn't a member (my girlfriend was) and I haven't attended a meeting in the last 20 years. But I was still shocked when they (grudgingly) allowed hymn singing in 2010.

Having said that, the garden bridge sounds more like a CofE-esque police state that a Free Church police state. I mean, it'll probably allow flowers and papists and all sorts.

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arethuza10y ago

I grew up in a wee Scottish village that had a population of barely a thousand and had (when I was a kid) six heavily attended churches of various denominations of which, I have to admit, the Church of Scotland was the most light hearted in its own miserable and dour way.

Edit: I'm pretty sure we had Wee Frees and Wee Wee Frees.

Edit2: I'm pretty sure "church" isn't the right word...

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