"I was a freethinker before I knew how…" — George Bernard Shaw

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• This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of… — Annie Besant
• A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
• e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not… — Albert Einstein
• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict… — Dan Barker
• To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely… — Christopher Hitchens
• In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I… — Julia Sweeney
• The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence,… — Theodore Schroeder
• Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. — Laurence Sterne
• And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father… — George Seldes
• At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to… — Leo Tolstoy

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