Even Stephen Harper — a member of an evangelical church himself — avoided public association with evangelical Christians due to political considerations.

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    Luckily Canada is getting more and more secular each year, and even people who believe in a higher power are less invested in organized religion. This is a losing strategy for Pierre and the Conservatives, but it probably won’t have any meaningful effect until 2029

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      I think it’ll be much much later than 2029.

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        Mass conversion to atheism is a deeply established, decades-long trend everywhere developed, and hasn’t slowed down one bit in any data I’ve seen. I’ll take that anecdote with a large grain of salt.

        • @SamuelRJankis@lemmy.worldOP
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          I’m not talking about overall atheism rates. More so extremely overtly religious people seem to be on the rise where as the same people used to be a bit toned down.