Affluence and Religion in Canadian Society
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/01/07
Mario Canseco is a consistent source of interesting information. In Business in Vancouver, he described the connection to affluence and religion of Canadians.
With inflation, housing issues, homelessness, and poverty, Canadians value faith less and affluence and comfort more. That makes sense. People want to live well and free. Research Co. surveys Canadians periodically. As a highly assessed population, we know stuff about us.
Family and friends longside the aforementioned affluence and comfort are stable aspects of a good life to us. Only a minor decrease in their importance. Interestingly, national pride differs per province.
Albertans appear to be more national pride conscious while Quebecers appear the least so. Affluence is more important among men and younger Canadians. Younger Canadians is defined as age 18 to 34.
Canseco remarks on religion as the least important aspect. This is dominance of a liberalized religious culture followed by a secular culture. We do not live in a post-secular culture because the society has not been fully secularized, simply look at the 2023 Freedom of Thought Report of Humanists International.
Even with this decline in religious importance, Canadians identify more as spiritual. I have commented on this in other publications. The idea of religion declining as a win isn’t necessarily. The idea of transference of these fabricated wants becomes the issue.
People are indoctrinated not merely with content of mind, but with styles of cognition. The styles remain when the content is disbelieved; hence, the move to spirituality as a filler. The former is structured and wrong; the latter is unstructured and wrong. The styles of cognition leading to them, the same.
Canseco notes how this leads to differences in political affiliation with Liberal Party and NDP identifying more as spiritual and Conservative Party voters moving more towards a flat difference between spiritual and religion identities.
With only half of Canadians as Christian, a huge number of people identify as atheist or agnostic. British Columbia is a huge place for this. The number of Canadians who never attendance religious services has gone up and many only for special gatherings, but weekly services is up.
In the context of economic challenges, affluence matters to Canadians while religion not so much.
Thanks, Canseco, I appreciate you.
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