A quarter of Canadians don't believe in any god


	A quarter of Canadians don't believe in any god

CarnivalBorn

5-31-2008 1:20 PM

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6-3-2008 5:26 PM

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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriett Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom's Cabin")

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