Religions
| Population by religion, Canada and BC (2001 Census) |
Canada | B.C. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | number | % | |
| Total population | 29,639,035 | 3,868,875 | ||
| No religious affiliation | 4,900,090 | 17% | 1,388,300 | 36% |
| Protestant | 8,654,850 | 29% | 1,213,295 | 31% |
| Catholic | 12,936,905 | 44% | 675,320 | 17% |
| Christian not included elsewhere | 780,450 | 3% | 200,345 | 5% |
| Sikh | 278,410 | 1% | 135,310 | 3% |
| Buddhist | 300,345 | 1% | 85,540 | 2% |
| Muslim | 579,640 | 2% | 56,220 | 1% |
| Christian Orthodox | 479,620 | 2% | 35,655 | 1% |
| Hindu | 297,200 | 1% | 31,500 | 1% |
| Jewish | 329,995 | 1% | 21,230 | 1% |
| Eastern religions | 37,550 | 0% | 9,970 | 0% |
| Other religions | 63,975 | 0% | 16,205 | 0% |
| Source: Statistics Canada 2001 Census http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo30c.htm |
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“Those who believe in their truth—the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men—leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of all times are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“Deism is good sense not yet instructed by revelation, and other religions are good sense perverted by superstition. All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)