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freethinker

f reething ker

  • n  a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it

  • A local freethinker and scoffer at the Gospel, Fred Ammermeyer.
  • She is a chichi freethinker, addicted to protest marches and The Arts.
  • Surprisingly, the paintings were the work of an avowed freethinker and Communist.
Quotes

  • Ronald Harwood in The Jewish Journal of greater L.A
    My father came from an Orthodox family, while my mother was what they used to call a 'freethinker,' and her mother-in-law used to refer to her as a 'Jewish shiksa,'Harwood said.
  • Harold Kroto in New Scientist (subscription)
    On the face it, what Reiss actually said at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting seems fairly reasonable - if uttered by a freethinker for whom evidence-based philosophy is pre-eminent,Kroto says. "Unfortunately...
  • Ibn Warraq in Global Politician
    As Ibn Warraq writes in his book Why I Am Not a Muslim, "Perhaps the greatest freethinker in the whole of Islam was al-Razi, the Rhazes of Medieval Europe (or Razis of Chaucer), where his prestige and authority remained unchallenged until the...

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