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It's been on your coins since the late 1800s and on the bills since the late 50s early 60s.
Just so I don't come off sounding secular than thou... Our national anthem, Constitution (Canada Act) and other federal documents make reference to God as well. Had I couched this discussion under those terms, many of you would have just said, "What? More wacky Canadian stuff?"
We have all of these references and they have little to no bearing on my day to day life, and yet, there they are. I am almost always taken aback when I come across them...
God is fairly abscent from our politics and yet we too were founded by men of God. I refer again, to the stats I mentioned above. That not too long ago Canada and the US were about equal in the per capita number of those who considered themselves religious. Over the past 30 years or so our paths have diverged. There has been an increase in the US mirrored by an equal drop in numbers in Canada.
I find that facsinating.
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