free|think|er

free|think|er
free|think|er «FREE THIHNG kuhr», noun.
a person who forms his own opinions, especially on religion, independently of authority or tradition. Historically the term is applied to a group of deists of the early 1700's and it still has the sense of agnostic, skeptic, or even atheist. »

A freethinker I will be, and Believe nothing but what I know and understand (Charles Kingsley).


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