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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).
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Ask an Atheist: Ever hesitant to announce your atheism?

I wasn't prone to proselytizing the fact I was an atheist.
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Donald the Apostate and Things to Come

How do we act, right now, in the moment, to embody what we believe, and act on those to make things right and good again. And what is the Right and the Good?
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Ask An Atheist: Better Without Religion?

Religions can inspire philanthropy and great art, or heretic hunting and ignorance.
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Ask An Atheist: A Loving God?

If the god(s) are moral and nice, why do they allow things that aren't moral or nice?
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Ask An Atheist: Freedom of Conscience

The sound secular position is that governments ought to have no power to coerce belief, or enforce lack of it. That was the principle on which our Republic was founded, and it ought to be the model for all the earth.
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Ask An Atheist: Atheist or Secular?

To be secular in a personal sense means not governing ones life based on religious dogmas, even though one can appreciate their social sides.
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Trump By the Movies (Popcorn Optional)

In “Back to the Future” Doc Brown was incredulous in 1955 when Marty McFly told him that Ronald Reagan was president in 1985. What would be the reaction of 1985 audiences, to be told who would be Chief Executive in 2019?
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