I am a high school senior in the "bible belt". It has been hard to come to the revelation of the truth, which in essence is taking responsibility for my actions rather than pray to "god". I grew up a casual Christian, but rarely attended church due to my parents working, ironically, on the...
Below please find a copy of my letter to the editor of
the Washington Post today in response to their article
on teaching a required course on Faith and Reason at
Harvard University. Having just heard Richard Dawkins
speak at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, I am very enthusiastic...
I only recently got my own copy of The God Delusion and recently discovered your website and I would like to send many thanks, and all my support, your way. I found myself absolutely fascinated and engaged by Dawkins' witty, articulate, enlightening, and insightful presentation, analysis,...
You have no idea how gratifying it is to have someone so erudite and articulate as a spokeman for atheism. I'm an old codger who managed to retain a functioning mind despite 12 years of Catholic education (including four college years with the dreaded Jesuits). I promote atheism by writing...
I have just finished my first reading of the God Delusion, and I cannot resist emailing to thank Richard Dawkins for writing it. For maybe 3/4 of my 60 years I have been a convinced if inarticulate atheist. Now at last I feel that there is a substantial intellectual underpinning to my own...
I am so pleased to find this website; the more I read of Richard Dawkins, the more I appreciate his clarity of thought and gift for presentation.
As an activist in the Minnesota version of the Democratic Party (DFL, or Democrat-Farmer-Labor); I was dismayed to find so many people talking about...
I have only read a few chapters of Richard Dawkins’ book, “The God Delusion”, but am compelled to write now in order to express just how important this book is.
Had I read this book before my conversion to born-again Christianity, (at the age of 19 while at University), I would...
Thank you changing the course of my life. I know that doesn't quite cover it, but it's all I have to offer.
I have just read your book. I was an agnostic holding out hope for some
existence after this one but you have shown me the light of reason and
evolution. I am taking Mark Twain's approach to the afterlife!
I really feel as though I light has been turned on. Death is an
inevitable but I...
I just wanted to say thank you to RD for writing about the irrationality of religion. The only thing I believe in is that we are born, that we live and then die. And that unites us all to every living thing on this planet. Prof Dawkin's articulation of evolution (I'm reading the...
I just wanted to send Dawkins a message. And that is that he has won. I was raised in an evangelical [read: fundamentalist] christian home in the midwest United States...I attended Christian Schools until the 10th grade, and was expected to go to a Christian university. I however never felt a...