Irreligious in Canada

[Natnasci]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Compared to a place like Quebec, they probably didn't have as many to begin with.

Not sure about per capita since in the old days every town had a church or two in BC.

Numbers wise, well, you guys did have 200 more years or so of European settlements, and a larger population.

[Natnasci]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Does the high rate of irreligiousity in British Columbia mean that a lot of houses of worship in Vancouver have closed in recent years?

Yes. Some have

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...sing-1.4466989

https://globalnews.ca/news/4035015/s...ale-vancouver/

Others are struggling, others doing fine.

Then there is this. Over the last 10 years or so.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources...hway_to_heaven

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Natnasci

Then there is this. Over the last 10 years or so.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources...hway_to_heaven

The intro lines to that article are just priceless!

[netwit]

The Frank Klassen in the BBC article sounds very typical of traditional Mennonite attitudes towards other religions. There is the impulse to be good and accepting of other faiths being at odds with the Christian belief of "strait is the gate and narrow the way." I don't know if the church Klassen is pastor of is a Mennonite church as I haven't researched it but Klassen is a Russian Mennonite surname. And Mennonite churches in BC were some of the first churches to drop the name "Mennonite" from their churches in an effort to make it clear that you don't have to be a specific ethnicity to belong to the church.

And the Braun mentioned and the note he attached to a blanket or whatever it was, also strikes me as very Mennonite, wanting to do good and wanting to reach out on a personal level. My grandfather did things like that.

But most people don't talk about their faith unless the subject comes up in context of a religious event so one would never know how seriously they take their religion or whether they are "cradle Catholics" or "cradle Mennonites." People do judge people though and make assumptions about their faith based on individual actions.