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A new poll is out in the National Post from a group at Carleton University and the Association of Canadian Studies on religious belief in Canada.

They only surveyed 420 people, but it was completed as an 80-question mail-in survey, so their margin of error is nearly 5%, the results are pretty striking.

First, the good news:

…respondents also registered concern about some negative aspects  of religion. About three out of four Canadians agreed with the statements “religion breeds conflict” and “religious people are too intolerant.”

Also, belief in the afterlife and miracles is down to 54% and only about 30% “know God really exists and have no doubts.”

The atheist position was represented by 7% and agnostics made up another 12%. These numbers seem consistent with most recent data, but this does leave a lot of soft “spiritual but not religious” people out there to be recruited. Roughly 40% of Canadians are either deists or Sunday theists.