Dedicated Christian wrote:Let me tell you something. "Free Thought" is impossible.
For you, maybe, if your screen name is an accurate representation.
Free Thought means that what you say is inspired by no one, and influenced by no one.
That is not the definition of "freethinker". Read the definition posted above, and try again.
This is not possible, because everything anyone says, thinks, or does is influenced and inspired by one thing or another. For a thought to be "free", it must be all your own, and nobody else can have ever thought of it. Otherwise, how can it be free thought? It's been used before. I guarantee that, no matter what comes into your head, there has been somebody, somewhere, in some point of time, who has thought the same thing.
To indulge you in your faulty reasoning: not exactly. The "free" part of "freethinker" refers to a lack of undue influence. If a thinker is unaware of that "somebody, somewhere, in some point of time, who has thought the same thing", then his thought is free of influence from the previous iteration, even if it isn't an original thought.
To say that you are freethinkers is nothing more than a deliberate slap in the face to anyone who believes or thinks differently than you-
Oh, waaah. You think you've been slapped in the face. You should dry your eyes and picket the dictionary publishers. That'd show them.
a method you seem to feel compelled to use to prove your own superiority.
Many who argue with us appear to be compelled to prove our superiority for us.
As you have stated before, thinking differently does not make you a freethinker. "Just because someone thinks differently from us does not mean that the person is a freethinker." This is, in the most honest term, bigotry.
It isn't bigotry, but it's true. Read the definition of freethinker posted above. If you form your opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief-- and apparently you do-- then you are by definition not a freethinker. That is not bigotry; it is simply the definition of a word. Maybe you'd better look up "bigotry" while you're at it.
You claim that you are freethinkers, yet anyone who tries to think freely DIFFERENTLY than you is a pathetic fool.
Many people are pathetic fools regardless of what they think. That's not our fault. The crux of the matter at hand is how they form their religious beliefs.
How can you call yourselves freethinkers?
It's quite simple: our way of thinking fits the dictionary definition of "freethinker".
I would encourage you to stop and think about what you claim to stand for and (maybe) actually start standing for it.
I encourage you to learn what "freethinker" means before you try to encourage us to do anything. (By the way: I stand for the flag, ladies who enter the room, and very little else.)
I know you won't, though, because I'm just a foolish Christian who doesn't spell free thinkers as one word.
It's nice of you to admit your sins, but you left out a few of your sins against language.
Stop whining about not being a freethinker. Being a freethinker is not like being in a club. You choose to not be a freethinker by not forming your opinions about religion according to the definition of the word. That's your choice. Try to cope.
