Burns Thoughts
The Very Reverend Dr John Chalmers in his timely article in the January edition of Life and Work (‘Flawed Nature’) makes the observation that, in the times of Robert Burns, ‘Scotland was trapped in the clutches of an insensitive theology’, which was challenged by Burns.
Dr Chalmers refers to a number of poems, in which Burns spoke out trenchantly against the ways of the Church, and he refers in particular to verses of Holy Willie’s Prayer.