To those who care to hear out one who has traveled a path of deepening truth;
I am near to being 70 years old. 2 years ago I was given an mergency operation consisting of a 3 line bypass of my heart's plumbing system. I still feel awed by the experience, having made a full recovery, without ...
Professor Dawkins,
Over the last year I have experienced a dramatic shift in my religious beliefs. I was raised as a Catholic (attending a Catholic elementary school), and until now I continued to cling to those beliefs. As someone who always loved science in all of its forms, I can finally...
Professor Dawkins,
I cannot pinpoint an exact day or time when I came to disbelieve in the divine. I feel as though I've wandered through a religious swamp. Finally, I tired of the muck and decided to climb up to higher ground where I could think clearly. I think I underwent a process, of...
Dear Prof. Richard Dawkins,
I would like to thankyou for your help in guiding me away from guilt, despair and fear - basically religion. Religion has had such a devistating effect on my life and when I saw the channel 4 programme 'The problem with Atheism' I immediately felt like...
I started reading Douglas Adams' books in high school (a Catholic high school) because I thought they were ripping good fun, and I became quite a fan of Douglas. So naturally when "The Salmon of Doubt" came out I rushed right out and purchased it. Upon encountering the quote about Richard...
Richard Dawkins,
I am 34 years old and was brought up in a Mennonite Christian home in Winnipeg, Canada. (Now how to follow that sentence? A whole range of emotion emerges at the thought!) I went through all of the typical things that a child in such an environment would go through. I was taken...
Dear Dr. Richard Dawkins,
When I was old enough to think about issues of human morality, I was quickly persuaded by the conservative viewpoint. To be so young, (early teens), I think I may have had the strongest opinions of all of my peers on issues of morality. A big reinforcing factor was of...
Dr. Dawkins,
I'm 18 years old and was raised catholic. I used to attend a catholic elementary/middle school and go to church every Sunday. I never really gave my religion much thought until recently. I never really believed literally in Adam and Even or Noah's arc. They directly...
Richard,
I would describe myself as an ordinary, un-remarkable and decidedly average person with (until recently) a troubled sense of place in this world. I have never felt comfortable with religion and the stereotypical view of the world and its origins held by some of my closest friends and...
Professor Dawkins,
I was raised Unitarian Universalist, by parents who were raised Catholic/Christian and who felt frustrated with the churches they had gone to in the past. I don't know exactly why they rejected those churches, but I think it had something to do with guilt, and how the...
I just wanted to post something to your site as I have read 4 of your books and it gives me great pleasure to write something that you may read. I particularly enjoyed 'The Ancestor's Tale' which I thought debunked most religious myth by simply relating the history of living things on...
Dr. Dawkins,
Thank you for writing 'The God Delusion." As a 24-yr old raised in a Protestant family and attending Christian schools my whole life, I never thought I'd be where I am today. While the questioning began before reading TGD, this book proved to be the catalyst for my apostasy....