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Thursday, March 28, 2024

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).

Ask An Atheist: A Strictly Negative Position?

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

Ask an Atheist: Ever hesitant to announce your atheism?

I wasn't prone to proselytizing the fact I was an atheist.

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?

Ask An Atheist: Better Without Religion?

Religions can inspire philanthropy and great art, or heretic hunting and ignorance.

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?

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.

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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