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Jim Downard

Jim Downard is a Spokane native (with a sojourn in Southern California back in the early 1960s) who was raised in a secular family, so says had no personal faith to lose. He's always been a history and science buff (getting a bachelor's in the former area at what was then Eastern Washington University in the early 1970s).
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Why don’t atheists believe in God?

Which God did you have in mind? The framing of the question contrasts the different view the believer tends to have compared to how an atheist or agnostic approaches the subject.
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Why do you think there is no creator?

The first is a general philosophical one, does there need to be a creator in the first place?
Beliefs

Ask an Atheist: Why don’t atheists believe in God?

Which god did you have in mind? The framing of the question contrasts the different view the believer tends to have compared to how an atheist or agnostic approaches the subject.
Beliefs

Freedom of conscience far from global

For some years the International Humanist and Ethical Union has compiled an annual Freedom of Thought Report, and their 2013 edition surveyed 194 countries, ranking them by how tolerant they are of nonbelievers.
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Where does your conscience come from?

Do you have a conscience? If so, where does it come from? Do you believe in universal reciprocity? (Why/why not?)
Commentary

A tale of two Rose Parades

Dobson had heard a terrible thing about the upcoming parade: the AIDS Healthcare Foundation had a float in the parade, and was signaling the sea change in matters of public moment by having a gay couple get married during the parade atop their wedding cake shaped float.
Beliefs

Trawling for common cause with people of faith on secular values and issues

In October I attended the 2013 installment of the Center For Inquiry’s annual “Summit” conferences, held this time nearby over in Tacoma, so I was able to swing the trip.
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