A Brief Primer on Freethought and Freethinkers
Each individual seems to seek a personal understanding of the meaning
and purpose of life and living. Most people derive answers to such
inquiries about human life from fellow human beings and from their
cultural surroundings, particularly from religion. Many take another route—the
path of freethinking. By way of their mental faculties and independent
reasoning, these persons reach autonomous conclusions concerning the prevalent
"religious truths" of the time and place into which they are
born.
The enduring human quest for meaning has, throughout history, led many
persons to depart from the prevailing societal conception of "truth"
offered them in their day. They
have independently pursued the quest for meaning and reached their own
determinations. These are the freethinkers
