And there is also a huge difference between the aggressive atheism of some Mudcatters and and a certain skepticism on religious matters. It would be eminently sensible for people to say they are not sure about the existence of God--agnosticism, it seems, is the reasonable stance for anybody who thinks about this sort of question and wants to rely on empirical knowledge.   But atheism--saying there is proof there is no God--is just as unsupportable as a literal interpretation of the Bible.   Because in fact there is no proof, nor could there ever be--of either extreme.

And I suspect thinking people in Canada as much as in the US have reached this conclusion----and Canadians, since they do not identify with extremists of any stripe, have never and would never elect somebody who is an avowed atheist.