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Originally Posted by Cheese
Non-religious Canadians are common throughout all provinces and territories. Non-religious Canadians include atheists, agnostics, humanists as well as other nontheists. In 1991, they made up 12.3 percent which increased to 16.2 percent in 2001 of the population according to the 2001 census. Some non-religious Canadians have formed some associations, such as the Humanist Association of Canada or the Toronto Secular Alliance.
It is suggested that the number is close to 35% or greater today.
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What, you mean this isn't about Harry Potter?
I wouldn't care either way if it was my graduation ceremony. It seems kind of petty to me that someone would bother to whine about it. Like they are looking to be, or trying to be, offended. It's a single line in a speech. Who cares?
That would go both ways though. I think it's kind of petty that people want it removed but it's equally petty that people insist it stays.
Soon enough the god parts would be silently dropped from the speech and nobody would know the difference anyway.
I do think it's kind of funny with all the people saying "don't they have better things to do!"
Of course they don't have better things to do. They are in university. I once spent an hour in a room full of people discussing the similarities between Hyman Roth from the Godfather II and some character in a Thomas Pynchon novel. University is the place to waste time.
No offense to anyone who works at a University of course. It really wasn't a waste of time. But it kind of was.