Category Archives: Stories About 'Change of Heart'

Dawkins and Byron Garcia

A Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
Whenever I come across a story like this my mind immediately reverts to The God Delusion where Richard Dawkins quotes Sam Harris, “While religious people are not generally mad, their core beliefs absolutely are.” And then I think of The Sunday Times Culture Magazine (21 October 07) describing TGD as [...]

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Dawkins and Charles Colson

Disgraced and imprisoned by the Watergate affair Wikepedia reports that ‘Colson was known as President Nixon’s hatchet man. Slate magazine writer David Plotz described Colson as “Richard Nixon’s hard man, the ‘evil genius’ of an evil administration.”[4] Colson has written that he was “valuable to the President … because I was willing … to be [...]

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Dawkins’ & John Sala

Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
After a lifetime of drugs, gangs, and crime, John Sala found God in jail, of all places. Now a free man, he’s reaching out to inmates with the Good News.
This story arose out of Christian Ministry not in reading Darwin or TGD. Jan Merop tells the story of John Sala

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Dawkins’ & Gideons International

Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
Gideons International.
It was only a few days after I had read the book, Condemned that I read in a Christian resource a similar story to that of Mark Rowan. Christian minister, Roberto L. Gomez, tells his readers, “Some friends invited me to attend a Gideon’s dinner for clergy. The speaker was a [...]

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Dawkins’ & Mark Rowan

A Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
 ”Gun-running criminal turns over a new leaf.” That was the headline of a feature article in the Weston and Somerset Mercury -19 July 2007. Mark Rowan had just authored a book called, ‘Condemned.’  It is a grim and chilling biography of a rebellious criminal young man eventually coming to know God [...]

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Dawkins’ & Steven Neill

A Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
Tattooed neo-Nazi met Jesus in prison. Posted on Jul 15, 2008 | by Russ Rankin
MINERAL WELLS, Texas (BP)-Seventeen years of prison and a lifetime of hate, violence and racism is mapped on Steven Neill’s body. Druids, swastikas, skulls and symbols of the occult circle and mesh darkly up his arms [...]

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Dawkins’ & Pedro Martin Nunez

A Reply to: Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater
Gang Leader Turned Pastor.On May 24 last The Times newspaper titled one of its articles, How Pedro Martin Nunez found the Lord. The title and Pedro’s appearance in The Times got me interested. What a story. Pedro had spent most of his life inside the infamous El Cereso prison in Mexico [...]

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Dawkins’ Manx Shearwater

I have been reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, pp. 87-92, on his rebuff to arguments of knowing God from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
On information about the Manx Shearwater, Wikipedia closes with , ‘In his atheist manifesto, the God Delusion, Richard Dawkins cites the Manx Shearwater in discussing the Argument from Personal ‘Experience‘ (p87):’
“One of the [...]

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