Are you celebrating Freethought month?

Examiner ^ | Oct 5, 2010 AD | Mariano

[MarianoApologeticus]

...Much of what passes for "Freethought" and "Freethinking" today is, in reality, atheism wearing a very thin disguise....In that case, it is clear that what is meant by Freethought is adhering to absolute materialism.

If a Judeo-Christian cannot be a freethinker then freethought is not freethought but demands adherences to certain restrictive parameters. Yet, since the Judeo-Christian can think beyond, for example, materialistic parameters we can be true freethinkers.

Atheists who have commandeered the term Freethought complain that Christians cannot be Freethinkers because they adhere to the Christian worldview. Yet, they commit the same alleged fallacy by adhering to atheism in disguise (or openly). Certainly, there are true and honest Freethinkers on both, and many other, sides of the issue...

[chrisser]

In my experience, "free thinker" has become yet another euphemism for Leftist/Statist. Like "liberal" and "progressive", it is used to hide their true agenda.

It certainly says something about them that they are either unable or unwilling to admit what they are to themselves and to others.

[HerrBlucher]

The crazy thing is, if Materialism is true there can be no free thought since all thought is, as C.S. Lewis puts it, the “epiphenomenon which accompanies chemical or electrical events in a cortex which is itself the by-product of a blind evolutionary process.” If all thoughts are merely the products of non-rational causes, this includes the materialist’s own thoughts. In other words, there is no reason according to materialism for materialism itself to be regarded as true.

[pnh102]

Rats. I was in Church the last 2 days. Guess that ruins it for me.

[SuziQ]

Do Freethinkers adhere to 'Natural Law'? If they do, they really can't consider themselves 'Freethinkers'. If they do not, then they're open to any number of actions which could be committed in the guise of 'helping', or doing good. They might be in favor of 'helping' poor people, by limiting their numbers, in any way the freethinkers see fit, be that abortion, or even infanticide. They could 'help' the planet by eliminating those who don't adhere to the conventional wisdom of human-caused Global Warming (see the video from 10-10 released last weekend). They could help those they believe are 'suffering', by offering euthanasia, or killing the disabled, be they unborn, infants, or young children.

If one is not grounded in SOME sort of morality, be it religious, or from Natural Law, there is nothing that would stop any number of atrocities against fellow human beings.

[vanilla swirl]

fascists are not freethinkers

[laotzu]

Freethought month?!! I thought this was truck month.

See your local Toyota dealer for details.

[Salvation]

I have free thought all the time. I just need to rein it into God’s way of thinking. What would Jesus do in this situation?

Nothing leftist about my free — thought, but when a project is put in front of me, I can think of all ways to do it. Imaginative, creative — is that free thought? No, I don’t think so, it’s a gift of God to me.

[Zionist Conspirator]

“Free thinker” is just a synonym for atheist and has been for centuries. Jonathan Swift knew that.

[antiRepublicrat]

The concept of freethought is getting out of context. Originally the movement was people who decided to think for themselves rather than think what the church told them to. It’s supposed to mean think freely without a box being established that you have to think within. Because of this, mandating that freethinking must be atheist in nature is contradictory.