Hi.
I grew up in a very conservative mennonite upbringing. My father is now a "non-denominational" minister, and even though he wasn't a minister while I was growing up, it was still a very religious upbringing I'd had.
I had many doubts while I was growing up in the church, and I was always...
I was never subjected to religion in my early years, even though my father was a Christian. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case in my later teens. I was converted to modern-day Judeo-Christianity, the loving man in the sky at the age of 14. I was so filled with joy, knowing that my tainted...
Dear Dr Dawkins,
You taught my younger brother in the early 70's at Oxford and he still remembers you striding into the lecture hall and asking "Who does NOT believe in evolution? "
I studied physics and then did an D Phil in engineering, both at Oxford. So I guess you could call me "well- educated". I also...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I wanted to write to thank you for opening my mind to reality.
I was raised Irish Catholic, and spent all my life deeply immersed in religion. I served at church, started a school prayer group at my Catholic school, went to youth rallies and retreats, and even spent my 'gap year' before...
Dear Richard
I recall two significant moments in my life as a christian. The first was as a young boy. I approached my Vicar and asked him what the evidence was for the existence of god. But not in a cynical way, I really believed that he had it. That I was now old enough to handle the facts. I really thought...
I was raised in a benign but slack-jawed cult which I now realize stunted my personal growth and intellectual development until my early 20s. I'm in my late 20s now and I give a lot of the credit to the books of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens for teaching me that asking for...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I hope you are well!
I had sent you an email a few days earlier about how it took me some years to really give up my dwindling faith.
However, to my surprise I forgot to mention the precise moment which stunned me. Perhaps I wanted to keep it short but I had so much to say that it was...
Dear Dr.Dawkins,
I would like to sincerely thank you for your role, which has helped me becoming an atheist. From early age to around 12-13,(am now 14) I was a devout Christian. For some reason however I loved Science, and still do, and thought the Universe was ever more beautiful as God must have had made it,...
To Professor Richard Dawkins,
I used to be one of the many who looked up at the ceiling at talked to a fictional man with a beard waiting for a reply that never came. My parents would always tell me that this was just the way that God worked and that I must be patient. Whenever something good happened it was because God was...
Dear Mr Dawkins,
I grew up in a moderately religious family, attended Sunday school and many Christian schools. However, I have to say that I always remained a tad skeptical of various legends perpetuated by the Bible. One of the most prominent examples was the New Testament's story of Jesus' sacrifice; it really...
I started writing a letter about my journey to becoming an atheist and it was just getting too long and I'm too busy. Suffice it to say that The God Delusion was the icing on a pretty thick cake. Thank you, sir, for your courage of your convictions. I wish I had more of it. I'm still...
Hello Richard!
Douglas Adam's is not the only convert to atheism!
I am 20 and from Northern Ireland, living not far from Belfast. My parents are creationists and have attended baptist churches most of their lives, as a result I was indoctrinated from a young age. But, I was skeptical from a young age too and...