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::::''Presbyterians fleeing Scotland (a wholly Presbyterian country at that time!) because of religous persecution is laughably wrong'' What about the persecution of the Covenanters under Charles II, ScotsPatriot? [[User:Koba|Koba]] 15:34, 2 March 2008 (EST)
::::''Presbyterians fleeing Scotland (a wholly Presbyterian country at that time!) because of religous persecution is laughably wrong'' What about the persecution of the Covenanters under Charles II, ScotsPatriot? [[User:Koba|Koba]] 15:34, 2 March 2008 (EST)
::::: You're about 130 years out at least. At the time of the Clerances (late 18th and early 19th century) Scotland was a wholly Presbyterian country. Indeed even at the time of Charles II the majority of the country was Presbyterian (but not the King). The injustices of the persecution on the Covenanters is one of the reasons that Scotland became so fiercely Presbyterian for the next 200 years. Only with the influx of Irish Catholic immigrants in the mid 19th century did the demographics of Scotlands religous community change. --[[User:ScotsPatriot|ScotsPatriot]] 16:04, 2 March 2008 (EST)