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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: How many people who used to believe in God have become atheists?

Overall there are maybe 10-15 percent of the population who are atheist. However, since most people in the U.S (and elsewhere) have some form of religion, demographically most atheists had non-secular backgrounds, and certainly many atheists were formerly very intense believers
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Do you value the roles other religions have played?

As someone who thinks historically, of course I pay attention to what people believe now or have in the past in order to make sense of their actions.
Commentary

An atheist’s historical appreciation for Nelson Mandela

As a devout secularist with one hand always on the deep pulse of history, I cannot help but feel moved and appreciative of the role that Nelson Mandela played in the peaceful transit of South Africa from apartheid prejudice to a working democratic structure.
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Where’s the world headed?

Technically, the world is headed towards the constellation Hercules at about 20,000 mph, dragged along as the sun goes on its merry way, but I suppose that isn't quite what the questioner had in mind.
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: What is your personal relationship to absolutism?

As "absolutism" is not an entity, I have no "personal relationship" to it at all, just as I can have no "personal relationship" with the mathematical absolute that one plus one equals two and not 64
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Would you have been an atheist 300 years ago?

Q. Setting aside intensity of persecution, do you think you would be an atheist if you lived 300 years ago? Do you feel you could sustain contentment without today’s scientific cosmological understanding?
Beliefs

Ask An Atheist: Could you ever be convinced of the existence of God?

The questioner appears also to be assuming that I am a "no possible evidence could persuade me" atheist, and there too I must beg to differ.
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