Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Thank you so much for all of your writing and advocacy supporting reason and secularism. While I can't quite call myself a convert, as I have never been religious, your work has certainly solidified my skepticism, and encouraged me to stop treating religion with hushed respect.

I am especially...

I’ve not been converted. I’ve never had a god or faith. I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the idea since the time I first heard it in religious education classes at primary school (incidentally taught by a priest later to be found with prior pedophilia convictions).

I had also never been...

My first recollection of you talking about science was actually on Steve Reich's video opera "Three Tales". To be honest, at the moment, I was intrigued by one single phrase you said "...Darwinian natural selection" and the moment when you, via a very clever audio editing, became a human...

I was brought up a Protestant in Liverpool and only really went to Church for Christenings, Weddings and because I was in the scouts and had to!

Every time I went to church I was literally pissed off with the way they talked to the congregation. It all seemed so false and actually quite scary....

Your facility for explanation of profound ideas is uncanny- would that I were blessed with anything approaching that gift.

I will avoid making this a paean of praise- I want explain why your books have been so important to me. My subject line says I was not converted; since Sunday school at...

Thank you for your excellent book "The God Delusion", which I have all but finished reading, and your commitment to science, reason and critical thinking and showing how liberating it is. I more confident today, after reading your book, that God does not exist. I simply see no evidence to...

I am 46 years old and I have always believed I did not have a scientific mind, having only ever worked in the arts. When pointing out my Christian fundamentalist girlfriend's 'blind faith' to her, given she had no tangible proof of the existence of god, she (rightly so) pointed out that I could...

I could never know how to thank you. Your admirable patience with those that attack the atheist position strikes me in awe. The sad part, and probably the hardest for you when dealing with arduous religious people, is that religion on the outside might seem to preach love and forgiveness, but in...

I have just finished reading your book, "The God Delusion" and it has changed my life. I now have a beautiful, awe-inspiring, and perhaps most importantly, truthful, understanding of fields like evolutionary biology, physics and astronomy. I think the right choice, after reading your book, is to...

I don’t know how I did it but after and education by nuns, Christian brothers, catholic priests in a boarding school the last trace of the burden of religion is gone thanks to Richard Dawkins. I was that bad that I remember clearly when a nun asked everyone in class in grade 2 (now in my 50’s)...

I was brought up as a catholic although my dad is a lot more religious than my mum (who has never really brought into it) so I had a mixed influence. I did go to a catholic school and it was a good school on the whole.

I loved drawing angels and decorating them in glitter and the like as a...

I just wanted to share how much you've genuinely impacted me in the past couple of weeks.

I'm a sixteen-year-old girl living in the "Bible Belt" of the United States, which inevitably means that Christianity is around every corner. I was born a Jehovah's Witness, but even with my few years of...