Hello, Mr. Dawkins.
My name is Eddie Painter, and I am a sophomore. My father, Ed Painter Sr., and I have been reading books of Atheistic stature. We had previously been Jehovah's Witnesses until about 7 years ago. My father still held some of the beliefs, such as an omniscient, omnipotent (a...
Dear Richard,
I was raised as a Catholic for most of my life, and only recently shed all traces of superstition. My mother was a Christian of the very genteel Unitarian sort, though she refuses the definition of Unitarian to this day. My grandmother- who lived with me and my parents through...
My name is Brenton Abel, and I would like to comment on the welcome clarification that Richard Dawkin's book, "The God Delusion" has provided me. I have grown up in an LDS home and as a result have always had a funny feeling about the idea of God. I suppose that I liked idea for the most part,...
Hi Richard, G'day
I was about 10 years old.
Raised in the catholic family in France, when I have asked a simple question about :
Adam & Eve, how they have started the humanity on earth? They had two sons, for me it means, they have had to make sex with their mother!! to continue the...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
It would perhaps sound a bit disingenuous if I were to outright thank you for helping me abandon evangelical Christianity. I have lost quite a bit (perhaps everything) by abandoning it, and I have not really found sense or solace in strict materialism or atheism (I am...
Richard Dawkins,
my name is Jordan Robert Wilson, I am 18 years old, from the UK and I would like to explain how your efforts to promote rationality and reason have affected me personally.
As I write this, it is the 4th July 2011. I was raised in an atheist family, which, in hindsight, was...
my brief "religious history" and how I ended up becoming an atheist, since there seems to be some contention about how people get "converted" to atheism I hope someone will find my story useful or insightful in some way.
I was born in Europe, Ukraine. My mother is a christian and my father is...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I am an 18 year old Australian girl who has grown up in a largely Catholic family and wider community. I was indoctrinated into the Catholic Church as was the rest of my family, and sent to Catholic primary and secondary schools.
When I was about 14, I began to...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I was brought up by wonderful loving parents, who were both Christians. In fact my father was a vicar for many years, largely, I think, because his father had been one too (his parents had both been missionaries in China). For years my father had doubts about his faith,...
It is not strange how deep religious beliefs go when they first have gotten a hold on you. I was brought up in a christian home. In a Christian culture. I was baptized and thus became a member in a statechurch wich is protestant. And I became a believer you could say. But at the age of 15 I...
Almost ten years ago I was taught by an English Professor. His name was Mr. Frey. He was working on his PhD through the University of Cambridge. Anyway, he was my Biology professor and taught me about Random Selection and random events that ultimately make us humans. He mentioned your name...
I definitely turned the corner from mostly non-believer to atheist upon reading ‘The God Delusion’ in 2007. I am also simply in awe of Professor Dawkins personal courage at championing atheism when so many would wish harm upon him for it. He inspires me daily and I literally find myself asking...