Leslie Zukor and Sam Singleton
Leslie Zukor, President of the Reed Secular Alliance, spent a rewarding evening discussing freethought with Atheist Comedian, Sam Singleton. During the conversation, both Zukor and Singleton shared their de-conversion stories. The former is the daughter of a Religion school teacher, in the Reform Jewish tradition, and the latter is the son of an itinerant Pentecostal Pastor. Since both were raised with religion, they shared the common bond of de-converting from their childhood faiths.
In Leslie’s case, the God which was central to her conservative worldview was proved to her to be non-existent, when she discovered Bertrand Russell’s masterpiece, Why I Am Not A Christian. At the time of her epiphany, Zukor was all of eighteen. For his part, Singleton lost his faith when he was fourteen and realized that the God he hated didn’t exist. Although Zukor and Singleton were raised in far different environments, they both agreed on the importance of speaking their minds.
