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Who says freethinkers are bad people? Programmed believers. Conversely, freethinkers believe it is bad to allow anyone to program what they think. The problem is that people who are programmed don't know it or will not recognize it when anyone points this out. In fact, it us usually futile to convince a person they are controlled either by god, their spouse, friend, congregation or whomever.
It would be easy to say that someone who is programmed is deficient in some way, but that would make as much sense as saying someone who has an illness is deficient. Physicians do not make such accusations, instead they focus on treating the problem using the symptoms simply as evidence. That is to say, good doctors have this mindset, but being human some doctors are judgmental and preachy. I avoid them like the plague because I cannot trust they are rational thinkers, my key to practicing medicine. Dr House is my hero in this regard.
The ancient fallacy that only belief in a deity can lead to morality stems from a woeful misunderstanding of human cognition and wishful thinking. In the end every person has to decide right from wrong. It would be great to have an angel on your shoulder to lead your every action, but no one has ever produced such a being for rigorous examination. No book can ever do more than serve as a guide, which leads me to conclude that thinking for myself is really the only course to follow.
My mother used to tell me to wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets full the fastest. (Apologies for the raw language, but the quote would just not be the same if toned down.)
Do you see why I am a freethinker?
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