Richard,
The Selfish Gene was the book that made things fall into place for me. I was an undergraduate in college at the time and while I was leaning towards atheism, there was still something logically lacking in the atheist viewpoints which prevented me from fully embracing atheism. Prior to...
How I became a disbeliever
I'm male, white, middle class, Kentucky resident, and a straight. My mother took me and my sibs to a moderate Methodist church but my agnostic father did not attend. In the early to mid 1970's, attending public school, and visiting museums, and watching science...
Dear Richard,
I came across a Q & A article about you in which you were interviewed by Toronto Star journalist, Olivia Ward, about a week ago. It had the title "The atheist as fundamentalist... Richard Dawkins on why religious faith tends to create more evil people than, say, Stalinism.
I...
My own dropping out, tuning in and turning on
Dear Professor Dawkins,
Last year I was in rabbinical school at an Jewish Orthodox yeshiva. I had been studying 'ancient' Jewish texts for many years already (4 thousand years no longer seems particularly venerable) but last year, in that...
Richard,
My story begins when I am still in 7-8th grade. I always watched star trek TOS and TNG after Saturday evening mass. The things I was hearing from the priest and on the show didn't seem to blend well with each other. Nevertheless, I tried to reconcile this by "explaining" God...
Refugee from the Roman Catholic Church
I am a bedraggled refugee from the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church, now a Card Carrying Atheist. Like Prof. Dawkins said about poor little kids like me, I was born a "Wee Catholic" and as a baby baptized into it against my will. I showed my displeasure by...
Catholic boarding school
I spent two years in a Catholic boarding school. Up to then I sort of believed in God. But, after those years with the teaching priests I was well on my way to atheism. Last month I read your "The God Delusion" and Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation"....
Dear Prof Dawkins,
I'm afraid I cannot say that your book/s converted me, because my own religious epiphany happened many years ago. I was 8, and at the American school in Kabul, Afghanistan - shortly before the Russian revolution. My teacher was a large and devout mid-Western American...
My story, as told here, is a lengthy one: over 9,000 words. Probably far too long for inclusion in "convertscorner".
So I shan't be shattered if you don't accept it. And anyhow, it has already been published in OPEN SOCIETY, Journal of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and...
I used to be a very devote Anglican. I never believed in creation, or taking the bible literally, but never-the-less, I had no doubt (at first) in the existence of God. I served at church, and even the reactor wanted me to sub-deacon. Then I had began to read the bible, and I was disgusted. I...
Subject: I am out of the closet.
I was raised Catholic. I was even an altar boy for a bit (you got some money for doing it so no surprise there). I have met many Jesuit priests in my secondary education who I have liked a great deal and I respected for their intelligence.
They must know they...
Thank you Mr. Dawkins for giving me the keys to unlock the chains of religion.
I was raised Catholic, and sent to church when I was seven. I soon dismissed Catholicism as nonsense, but SO many people believed in god. I thought with so many people believing, there must be some merit to it. So I...