Quote Originally Posted by davidlpope View Post
My objections are:

1. I don't believe that any tartans were "blessed" in the original "Kirkings"; so the current practice involving a long line of "clan" representatives carrying oversized tartan banners into a church sanctuary to be "blessed" is really a brigadoonery that has grown up here in the US.

2. Modern-day "Kirking of the Tartans" observances invariably attribute their origin to an erroneous myth that the "Kirking of the Tartans" was a practice that originated in Scotland after the Act of Proscription (see, this isn't completely OT) when clanspeople secreted away shredded tatters of tartan cloth which were secretly brought before a priest/minister to be "blessed", instead of the genuine and impacting origin that involves Peter Marshall.

David
David

I do not want to let this get into an argument so can we agree that this is just a friendly debate of facts?

In answer to #1 - YOU do not believe any tartans were blessed but there is no evidence either way as to what was done during that service - so you are not basing your understand on facts but rather on what you think may have or not have happened. In my research there is not even a copy of the original sermon.

#2 as to the (erroneous-your word) myth of a practice in Scotland years ago, there is again no evidence to prove or disprove the practice of taking a small piece of tartan to the Kirk (Church) to be blessed. So you are again basing your idea off of what you think did or did not happen

remember a lack of evidence is not evidence