The Faith of Our Fathers.
Primitive people are far more disposed to attend to matters of the spirit, to accept God as real, than civilized man is. Civilization robs man of his spiritual perception, rather than enhancing it.
With all my studies it is clear to me that man must have begun with a pure concept of a Supreme Being, a great God, Lord of all, Creator of the world, merciful and just and all-seeing, omnipresent, and omniscient. This was the faith of primitive people whom evolutionists themselves hold to be our "contemporary ancestors."
My earliest ancestors are traced back to the Celts and Picts.
Celtic spirituality has some distinguishing features, one of them is its diversity: it combines polytheistic and monotheistic features, earthy rituals and transcendental mysticism. The appearance of Celtic spirituality is dated back to first mythological mentions. Second feature of Celtic spirituality is its natural character, ties with earth. The Celtic spirituality is contained in sky, earth, sun, and sea - in all nature. Celts believed in sanctity of nature and tried to take care of it. The third thing is mystical and relational directivity. Celtic diversity comes more from experience than from theological dogmas. Celts were looking for the religious origins in their hearts and souls; they did not accept philosophical substantiation of the belief. Celts saw the necessity of collaboration between people and the earth, people and the spirits of nature and the Holy Spirit that is the head of all living creatures and is beyond all names.
The pre-Christian world these Celts believe in existence of many gods and angels and image them as living beings, not just abstract creations. According to the Celtic understanding of the world, these divine beings can communicate with people in their own mystical way. Another interesting thing about
The pre-Christian world was the world of Celts, who worshiped nature. To the Celtic outlook, the land was the main goddess, the rivers were her helpers and they enriched the earth.
On the islands which are considered to be the family’ ancestral home. St Oran and St Columba are said to have stopped here on their way to finally settling on Iona: The names the isles are Colonsay (St Columba's isle) & Oronsay (St Oran's isle). St Oran was the founder of the island's monastery in 563 or it may mean island of the ebb tide.

With the appearance of Christianity ancient Celts didn't disturb their close ties with nature, they connected their love to nature with the main principles of Christianity. The most important thing was to understand the divine origin of all things and god's existence in nature. Celts saw life as a constantly changing circulation of life and death. Everything moved in a spiral and nature's observation gave a possibility to find mechanism of development of the world. Nowadays we have practically completely lost the awareness of spiral development and it's difficult to gain an understanding of the world. Life of Celts is an integration of spirit, community and nature, and these concepts were a single whole and couldn't exist separately that can be scarcely imagined in our modern society. Celtic Christians strongly believed in Holy Trinity. Early Celtic Christians didn't go to church they preferred worshipping in small communities and sharing their food, money, work with the representatives of this small group. They saw Christ in their neighbour and shared everything with him.
Though preceded by St. Oran, who established churches in Iona, Mull and Tiree, Columba was the most important of these missionaries. He later became a popular saint in the history of the Christian Church, but even he built the nave of his first monastery facing west and not east. For his efforts at reforming the Church, Rome excommunicated him. His banishment from Ireland became Scotland's gain.
The island of Iona, just off the western coast of Argyll, is in present-day Scotland. It is been called the Isle of Dreams or Isle of Druids. It was here that Columba (Columcille "Dove of the Church") and a small band of Irish monks landed in 563 to spread the faith. And it was here that the missionary saint inaugurated Aidan as king of the new territory of Dalriata (previously settled by men from Columba's own Ulster).
Iona quickly became the ecclesiastical head of the Celtic Church in the whole of Britain as well as a major political center. After the monastic settlement at Iona gave sanctuary to the exiled Oswald early in the seventh century, the king invited the monks to come to his restored kingdom of Northumbria. It was thus that Aidan, with his twelve disciples, came to Lindisfarne, destined with Iona to become one of the great cultural centers of the early Christian world.
In 574, Columba is believed to have returned to Ireland to plead the cause of the bards, who were about to be expelled as troublemakers. According to legend, he sensibly argued that their expulsion would deprive the country of an irreplaceable wealth of folklore and antiquity. He also refused to chop down the ancient, sacred oak trees that symbolized the old druidic religion. Although the bards were allowed to remain, they were forced to give up their special privileges as priests of the old religion
Iona remained an important center of Christianity despite the retreat of many of its monks to Ireland during the deprivations of the Vikings. To be buried in the ancient burial ground in Iona was a special privilege for early Christians.
Iona suffered greatly from the raids of the Vikings and Danes. Under their deprivations, the Abbey was destroyed and the rule of St. Columba and the remaining Celtic Church brought came to an end. It wasn't until 1072 that St. Margaret was able to rebuild the destroyed Abbey. By that time, of course, the Norman invasions had inaugurated centuries of armed conflict and political tension between the English and Scottish kingdoms.
The Reformation of the 16th century, with its brutal suppression of the old religion and all that was connected with it, seemed to completely transform Scotland. However, traditions die hard, and in Ireland and Scotland, many Celtic customs survived. Some of them even survived the bloody battle of Culloden in 1746 that for all intents and purposes marked the end of the Gaelic way of life in Scotland. The survival of these traditions (and the hostility caused by brutal attempts to eliminate them) underlies much of today's Celtic resurgence
Some Members of the clan(family) when it was then moved to Lochaber where many Macfies lived beside the Camerons. A Macfie was one of two pipers at Glenfinnan when Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his banner there in 1745. The following year many Clan members died on the right flank at Culloden fighting alongside the Camerons. They share a common grave on that desolate moor.
The survival of these traditions (and the hostility caused by brutal attempts to eliminate them) underlies much of today's Celtic resurgence.
With the Scottish reformation the adopted Presbytarian..The origins of the Presbyterian churches were in Calvinism, which is no longer emphasized in some contemporary branches.
Presbyterians place great importance upon education and continuous study of the scriptures, theological writings, and understanding and interpretation of church doctrine. It is generally considered that the point of such learning is to enable one to put one's faith into practice; most Presbyterians generally exhibit their faith in action as well as words, by generosity, hospitality, and the constant pursuit of social justice and reform, as well as proclaiming the gospel of Christ.
We built our meeting houses. Only one faith could be called a Church…that of The Church of England. After the American Revolution we earned the right to call our place of worship a Church.
As we lived in America members of the family remained Presbytertain or choose in their freedom to join other demonitations. This their religious background .
I believe in the separation of Church and State. For without this people can be deny the Human Right to their Faith.