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I guess it means you don't believe in any type of highly powerful supernatural God (Jesus, Allah, Buhhda whatever), don't believe what you do is subject to any kind of book/script except the secular laws of the country you live in.
When some dies, his spirit dies completely with his body. Nothing remains. He just ceases to exist in any space. There is no next life.
Specifically Atheist just means someone who doesn`t in a god or gods, so it technically applies to many sects of Buddhism and other supernaturalist worldviews that lack deities. In common parlance, however, it usually refers to naturalists who don`t believe in any supernatural forces or entities.
That's true only up until a point. Alberta has oil, cattle ranching, low taxes, sprawling cities, and lots of money, thus the comparison, but it's still another country. Alberta is indeed more Protestant and religious on average than much of Canada, but it's a different world from Texas, and you don't see the kind of radicalism that tries to edit peoples textbooks. It's hard to explain, but the conservatism of Alberta comes from the Red Tory tradition for the most part, not the Republican one, and these are very different animals.
That's true only up until a point. Alberta has oil, cattle ranching, low taxes, sprawling cities, and lots of money, thus the comparison, but it's still another country. Alberta is indeed more Protestant and religious on average than much of Canada, but it's a different world from Texas, and you don't see the kind of radicalism that tries to edit peoples textbooks. It's hard to explain, but the conservatism of Alberta comes from the Red Tory tradition for the most part, not the Republican one, and these are very different animals.
Alberta is probably still more 'liberal' than any US state, except maybe Vermont. And yes, I am including California, Oregon, Washington, New York State, Minnesota etc.
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Alberta is probably still more 'liberal' than any US state, except maybe Vermont. And yes, I am including California, Oregon, Washington, New York State, Minnesota etc.
This.
In the Canadian context, Alberta is Texas, but on a continuum, any Canadian province is further left than anywhere the US (except Vermont, they're just crazy).
As far as religion goes, the born again Evangelical church that most tend to cringe at has not dominated a region like it has in the Southern States.
Most Canadians tend to view religion sort of like your penis;
I'm glad you're proud of it, but please don't whip it out in public, and keep it away from my kids.
Hard to beat southern USA for religious fervor as on a recent trip through Northern Florida,Mississippi and Alabama the quantity of churches is astounding, they are on almost every street corner, hard to drive a mile without seeing several small churches on our trip, hard to believe there are enough people to fill all those churches..
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