THE GOD DELUSION puts into words the 'revelation' I had at age eleven. Precocious? Not really.
From age three to age ten I spent most of my life in Roman Catholic institutions and boarding schools. I was nine years old when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. The nuns rejoiced and we...
Dear Richard Dawkins,
First off, I want to say thank you for allowing this 19 year old to see that it's okay not to believe in god.
For as long as I can remember, I have believed in God, but on and off. I consider myself a rational thinker. I believe in science, because it works. I believe...
Greetings,
This is the story of how I escaped religion.
I was raised catholic. Mass was a wondrous experience to me. The music, the vestments, the ritual, the stained glass, my Sunday classes with the nuns, were all things I looked forward to every Sunday morning. Even as I grew ...
Dear Professor Dawkins
I am an ex-Christian because of you. My full anti-testimony is at: http://exchristian.net/testimonies/2006/10/perfect-religion.html . To cut a long story short, a friend lent me The Blind Watchmaker and my faith disappeared in an instance. Without genesis and original sin...
I will begin by thanking you, Mr. Dawkins for helping to further my education, which I plan on continuing until I die. I was raised in a Christian sect and lived in a sort of blind fog until I was 18. I then decided on being agnostic solely for ease of explainability. I decided to explore my...
Hello Richard Dawkins! I really hope that you will read this. I'm a 15 year old American high school student in California, and I used to be a Christian. It wasn't necessarily you who made me convert to atheism, though you did have a part in my transformation from a Christian to an...
Dear Richard Dawkins,
I have only recently come to be aware of you and your writings, and I am greatly thankful for them and you. You have given me the confidence to declare what I had felt scratching at the back of my head for some time: I am an atheist.
I had the good fortune of being...
Dear Mr. Dawkins and everyone at the RDF,
Hello, I am 15 years old, and I had been skeptic of my religion for almost a year by the time of my birthday. I took an interest in science, esspecially evolutionary biology and am still in the process of trying to at least vaguely in a sense;...
Dear Richard,
I can't thank you enough for your work. I was raised by evangelical parents and in my teens I "accepted Jesus as my saviour", but never felt comfortable with Christianity - I was told in no uncertain terms that you couldn't just be a quiet christian and get on with your...
Thanks
A year ago I was accosted by young earth diatribe. It was a wake up to my meandering around the subject of deity based creationism. My father is a minister. Quite by accident I found myself in possession of an entire collection of Scientific Americans at the age of 14. At 16 I stopped...
Dear Convert's Corner,
Having had much encouragement (in my journey from fundamentalist Christian to Atheist) from people who have been along the same path, I thought I would briefly write of my experience in case it too might be helpful to someone.
From a very young age I was taken to...
Teenaged atheist
I am a 16-year-old, British-born American currently living in that bastion of Enlightened thought and rationale, Connecticut. My immediate family are devoutly Irish Catholic, and worse, almost all of my cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. are fundamentalist Christians. Not just in...