Sharon Mease's childhood was typical for a conservative Baptist family. Her family attended church often, and most of her friends and acquaintances also were church members. But when she was 14, a question became fixed in her mind: Was any of it real? "There was no event in particular," the Spirit Lake woman said of what set off her spiritual doubts. "It just goes with how adolescents question everything. It was just a part of being a teenager, I suppose." It didn't go away. In her 30s, Mease launched an intensive, "soul-searching journey" that would last 25 years. She read, watched science programs, did a lot of thinking. Finally, she resolved that she couldn't believe in a supernatural being. ... The 65-year-old is participating in a Freedom From Religion Foundation campaign, in which seven billboards in the Spokane area feature the photos and testimonials of local agnostics and atheists/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here. (Colin Mulvany 2011 SR file photo of an atheist bus ad campaign in Spokane)

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