"Religion does not engender freedom of thought - on the contrary, it regiments and punishes according to myth, dogma and shibboleth. So - religion is not spiritual, it is something else. Being Canadian, OTOH, is what you are by default. It defines you empirically, individually & collectively. As they say, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy."

You and I have very different views on religion and spiritually and especially on being Canadian.

I'm as Canadian as Little Hawk and our upbringing, our families, our education, were very very different. As far as I recall the other Canadians on this forum are as different from us as we are from each other. Not to mention all of the Canadians so different from us that they would never ever appear on this forum.

It is in my experience that people's religious views are as varied as our Canadianism. Your mileage may vary.