Dear Professor Dawkins,
Like many people in the UK, I was raised as a christian; C of E specifically. I went to a faith school because it was the best state school in the area, and my mother backed up much of what they taught me at home - although, looking back now, I realise that my father...
Professor Dawkins,
How science save my soul - or coming to your senses before it's too late.
I was once a very active and committed Christian. I was the church treasurer, served on multiple committees, was a choir member and was active with the youth group. But I always had a science bug,...
Dear Mr. Dawkins,
I'm and 18 year old girl from Israel. I was born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. Religion was forced upon me since I can remember myself. The first time I remember questioning religion was when I was about 5 years old. I was a curious child and I remember asking...
Hello, Richard.
I really hope that my letter will reach you. I write with the help of Google translator because my English is not very good, excuse me.
I am from Russia. I want to thank you sincerely for your work in biology and promoting atheism. I read your book "The Selfish Gene", then...
Dear Richard,
I don't know how to begin to thank you. I know you must receive millions of hateful messages from people so much like me, except that they never managed to break free.
I am a 20 year old American woman, born into a fundamentalist Christian family, who is just learning for the...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I don't really know where to begin and where this mail would eventually end up, but I shall try to keep it short.
While being born and bred a Christian, I have always had a internal struggle within me for as long as I can remember. To put it more clearly, the...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I am no longer a person of faith. I was doubtful my whole life and the church in which I grew up never failed to emphasis that this was a bad thing. As a kid, it scared me to death; I was incapable of blind faith and was at risk of eternal torment because of it. In The...
Dr. Dawkins,
I felt I should respond to your query regarding the existence of other such "converts". I consider myself a "hybrid-convert". While I was raised Roman Catholic, and have upheld my faith, I constantly questioned what I was taught. Between yourself, Dr. David M. Buss, Dr. Matt...
Dear Richard,
Thank you for *The Blind Watchmaker* and *The God Delusion*, two books that were instrumental in my deconversion.
I was raised in a religiously apathetic—and generally unbelieving, as it turned out—household but went on to attend a Seventh-day Adventist high school. My science...
Hello Professor Dawkins,
My name is Jake Murtaugh; I'm from the U.S. Well, like many of the convert family, I was a closet doubter for a long, long time. And like many, I was raised with a decently religious background. Not too austere thankfully, but enough to have an influence. I...
Dear Richard,
Like so many others here, I must write to say thank you.
I am the descendant of generations of clergymen and religious devotees on both sides on my family. Through no choice of my own, religion oversaw the first 15 or so years of my life. It was another 8 years before I...
I had an excellent upbringing - my parents are loving, caring people who never hurt me or denied me any of my basic needs. They are good and honest, but sadly they made the mistake of bringing me up as a Christian, just as they had been. It's not their fault - they are as much a victim as I...