I'm not sure who reads these emails, but I will direct it to Richard Dawkins anyway.
I was raised in an atheist, open minded family. However, in recent years, I have flirted with the idea of religion. I am 18 years old. Before I read your incredible book, The God Delusion, I had already seen...
Dear Richard,
You have a clarity of written English that's second to none and it's a joy to read your books. I read the God Delusion as soon as I heard it publicised and could not argue logically against any of it. I once read a book by Allen Carr which clarified all the reasons why smoking...
Dear Richard,
In this world of religious intolerance toward others and threats of retribution and violence toward those who are rightfully skeptical and critical of religious belief I admire your courage and conviction in so publicly stating your considered views. In time, and in the future...
Hi Richard,
I feel as though we are on a first name basis. It is quite wonderful, really. I feel so close to you, yet we have never met, and perhaps we never will.
I admire your amazing, inner strength. You are an incredibly brave human being. You have inspired me to pursue a career in...
Dr. Dawkins,
We met briefly tonight in the manner common now--at a book signing. I mentioned that your books had been a fountain of new knowledge about evolutionary biology since I was raised and taught in a Christian curriculum home schooling environment. You asked me if I attended...
Dear Professor Dawkins,
I became an atheist at the age of 12. I had been raised by a devout Catholic mother, and while my father was- as far as I know- an unbeliever, his religious influence was little after my parents divorced. As a very young child, I was a young earth creationist. By very...
Dear Prof. Dawkins,
Practically everything I've ever known, or found plausible, is incompatible with the idea of a personal, humanoid, Earth-obsessed deity. If atheism held no comfort whatsoever, I would be stuck with it nonetheless...just like I'm stuck with not expecting an afterlife, or...
Dear Richard Dawkins,
I have been an atheist for all but the first 16 of my 68 years. What has changed in the last 5 or 10 years (at least in England) is that saying "I'm an atheist" in polite company is no longer a complete conversation stopper - I no longer feel the need to "get my coat" and...
Dear Mr. Dawkins,
I was born in 1960, the first-born of Irish Roman Catholic parents, so naturally I was baptised into the Catholic Church. I was a "good boy" as a primary school student - at least superficially - and served as an altar boy, read the lesson in my local church, collected and...
I'm 21 and have been an atheist for roughly 4 years. I was brought up in a family that went to church and I have been baptised, though no one in my family was strictly religious; it was a social thing. I never really 'believed' in any of it but could never put my thoughts across in conversation....
Dear Richard Dawkins,
Unlike most other people in my Christian school, I found the bible a nice and occasionally gruesome work of fiction. By the age of eight I had firmly decided that there was no god. I was so terrified of this conclusion at first, and sharing my it with anybody seemed...
The purpose of any teacher, therapist, nurse, doctor or parent is the same. It is the principle of self-enforced redundancy. And it hurts. Oh God does it hurt. I recently became a parent. I stopped being a Christian years ago when my little church failed after the minister’s wife ran off with the...