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Dear Professor Dawkins,

thank you, you have done something incredible, we live in the same nation, and yet we have never met-but you have managed to affect my life so deeply. I was born and raised as an orthodox Roman Catholic, and attended a Catholic Primary and Secondary school. It was when I went to my secondary...

Dear Professor Dawkins,

I asked my wife for two books for Christmas, your “The God Delusion” and the late Christopher [an ironic misnomer] Hitchens’s “God is Not Great.” I read both over the Christmas & New Year break. Their logic and clarity, in different individual styles, was convincing in the sense that hot mustard...

Hello Professor Dawkins,

I must first start by thanking you for your books, and your appearances to speak on your work and beliefs. I, for many years, have been on the fence when it came to the belief in god. If anything, I have been agnostic since I was a teenager. Being begged to join a Baptist congregation by a...

Dear Professor Dawkins,

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...

Dear Richard,

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...

Dear Professor Dawkins,

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...

Dear Richard,

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....

Professor Dawkins,

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...

Dr. Dawkins:

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...

Dear Mr Dawkins/RDF Staff,

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...

Dear Dawkins,

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...

Dear Dr. Dawkins,

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...