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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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UNDERSTANDING PRAYER: Haven’t got a prayer … or do we?

Prayer may be thought of as the way humans sent emails to the gods before the Internet. How many of them expected a direct reply is anybody’s guess, though there is no doubt there were some who imagined they received one.
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Ask An Atheist: Does it Take Faith to be an Atheist?

Not only does it not require "faith" to be an atheist, that aspect should play no role whatsoever in being an atheist
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Ask An Atheist: A Strictly Negative Position?

In a philosophical sense atheism is at ground a rejection of supernatural entities as informative principles
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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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