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[[File:Freethinkers.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Dr. [[Jonathan Sarfati]] is a staff member of [[Creation Ministries International]]. ]]
[[File:Freethinkers.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Dr. [[Jonathan Sarfati]] is a staff member of [[Creation Ministries International]]. ]]
The terms '''freethought''' and freethinkers are [[oxymoron]]s. Freethinker is a pretentious moniker that atheists/agnostics have dubbed themselves (See: [[Atheism and arrogance]]).
The terms '''freethinker''' and '''freethought''' refer to going against prevailing cultural norms and idioms.
==Atheist and 'enlighted' freethinkers==
Beginning in the so-called "[[Age of Reason]]", freethinker and freethought became [[oxymoron]]s. Freethinker is used as a pretentious moniker that atheists/agnostics have dubbed themselves (See: [[Atheism and arrogance]]).
Research indicates that [[atheism|atheists]] are less open-minded (see: [[Atheism and open-mindedness]]).
Research indicates that [[atheism|atheists]] are less open-minded (see: [[Atheism and open-mindedness]]).
Furthermore, most atheists fall on the [[leftism|left]] end of the political spectrum (see: [[Atheism and politics]] and [[Secular left]]).
Furthermore, most atheists fall on the [[leftism|left]] end of the political spectrum (see: [[Atheism and politics]] and [[Secular left]]).
==African American freethinkers==
[[African American]]s who escape the [[Democart plantation]] often dubbed themselves as freethinkers, and are derided by [[leftist]]s with the [[racial]] pejorative, "[[Uncle Tom]]" for rejecting the subservient status of Blacks to the [[progressive]] and [[Democratic party]] agenda.
== Atheism and dogmatism ==
== Atheism and dogmatism ==