Originally posted by Jamie Zawinski:
free-thinking consists of deistic beliefs too
well, there are many forms of free thinking imo.
it's just how people label each other using names like "atheists" and so on. for instance, i hear classifications like free thinkers, agnostics, humanists, and apatheists all belonging to the term atheists.
it still depends on the way people perceive these name-callings.
for me, it doesn't really matter whether deists, christians, catholics, buddhists, jews, or hindus etc. who come into this forum to make sound and reasonable discussions, rather than to close our doors and be in this world of our own here. however, i'm in no position to dictate the purpose of this forum, but those were what i suggest.
yes. atheism has its own line to draw. but i was thinking... won't it be better if free thinking is encouraged? it doesn't mean that free thinking will lead to free feeling. i mean, critical thought is still necessary no matter what.