The Globe and Mail asks the question, "Have you experienced a crisis of faith?"

Ongoing Final poll results can be found here.

It would seem that a good number of respondents have indicated that they have never had any faith. Might they be atheists? It's also interesting to note that as many people have lost their faith as those that have kept faith.

* I'll update this entry when the poll closes.

Update: The poll closed with a total of 9280 respondents. Of that total 60% either lost their faith or never had faith to begin with. On the other hand, 39% either found faith again after losing it or had never lost their faith. To summarize, that's 60% non-believers versus 39% believers. Based on the typical reader of the Globe, it's no surprise that the non-believers outnumber the believers by such a large margin. I would suggest that the Globe has a highly literate and educated readership and that this poll supports the notion that highly educated people are less likely to be believers in the supernatural and are likely to consider themselves atheists, agnostics and humanists. And I'm glad to see that the pollsters didn't use the term "atheism" and lump atheism in with religions like another recent poll on the subject.