'Global FreeThinkers' : what we stand for
"Ubi dubium ibi libertas":
Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
[Latin Proverb]
WHAT IS A FREETHINKER?
A freethinker is a person who forms opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief.
Freethinkers include atheists, agnostics, secular humanists and rationalists.
Some famous freethinkers include:
Mark Twain, Noam Chomsky, Richard Feynman, Thomas A. Edison, Frederick Douglass, Carl E. Sagan, Margaret L. Sanger, Albert Einstein, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Charles Darwin, Susan B. Anthony, Steven Weinberg, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marvin Minsky, Stephen W. Hawking, and many other great thinkers.
SO WHAT DO FREETHINKERS DO?
Most freethinkers are skeptics and are devoted to free inquiry in all fields of human endeavor.
Most are committed to a scientific outlook and the use of the scientific method in acquiring knowledge; to uphold humanist ethical values and principles.
The goal is to further the respect for different viewpoints, and for the advancement of intellectual ideas.
SO WHAT IS THIS GROUPS PURPOSE?
'Global FreeThinkers' is an educational - active! - Group concerned with separation of church and state.
'Global FreeThinkers' is established for the purpose of providing sanction and an outfit for the freedom of expression of non traditional religious view points without fear of condemnation or proselytization as well as increase opportunity to understand, and challenge intolerance.
This Group will also have need of opinion makers and debaters, and will challenge and/or examine claims such as abortion, gay rights, creation/evolution, church/state separation, alien abductions, satanism and other cults, psychics, Holocaust denial, conspiracies, miracles or faith healing, Biblical claims, and much much more.
Amen! ;-)
Saul Akkemay
SOME FAMOUS ATHEISTS & AGNOSTICS:
Note: An agnostic is someone who believes that the truth value of any claim regarding the existence of God, gods, or deities is unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent.
Forrest ('Forry') J. Ackerman
Douglas Adams
John Adams
Phillip Adams
Alfred Adler
Brandy Alexandre
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tariq Ali
Woody Allen
Shulamit Aloni
Thomas J. Altizer
Anaxagoras
Poul Anderson (agnostic)
Natalie Angier
Piers Anthony (agnostic)
Susan B. Anthony
Lance Armstrong
Liv Arnesen
Madison Arnold
Darren Aronofsky
Isaac Asimov
Peter W. Atkins
Sir David Attenborough
Austin Lounge Lizards (band)
Robert Bruce Avakian
The Bad Samaritans (band)
Julian Baggini
Dr. Stephen Baird and the Opossums Of Truth
Russell Baker
Mikhail Bakunin
Iain M. Banks
Clive Barker
Dan Barker
MC Paul Barman
Dave Barry
Richard Bartle
Bill Bass
Simone de Beauvoir
Ludwig van Beethoven
Matt Bellamy
Steve Benson
Jeremy Bentham
Ingmar Bergman
Irving Berlin
Hector Berlioz
Pierre Berton
Matt Besser
Jello Biafra
Ambrose Bierce
Georges Bizet
Bjrk (b. Gudmundsdottir)
Lewis Black
Susan Blackmore
Bill Blass
James Blish
Jim Bohanan
Sir Herman Bondi
Pierre Boulez
Ben Bova
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Menno ter Braak
Charles Bradlaugh
Billy Bragg
Johannes Brahms
Nathaniel Branden
Marlon Brando
Sir Richard Branson
Berkeley Breathed
Julia Hartley Brewer
Susie Bright
Isaac Brock
Rodney Brooks
Andrew Brown
Bill Bryson
Peter Buck
Ludwig Bchner
Warren Buffett
Mario Bunge
Luis Buuel
Richard Burton
John Byrne
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
Dean Cameron
Albert Camus
George Carlin
Andrew Carnegie
John Carmack
Rudolf Carnap
Adam Carolla
John Carpenter
Asia Carrera
Carvaka
Fidel Castro
Dick Cavett
Sir Charles S. Chaplin
Stephen Chapman
Vic Chesnutt
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
A. Noam Chomsky
Mohammed Choukri
Robin Christopher
Chumbawamba (band)
Voltairine de Cleyre
Paul Cliteur
Alexander Cockburn
Auguste Comte
Andr Comte-Sponville
Billy Connolly
Joseph Conrad
John Conway
Robin Cook
Douglas Coupland
Sir Noel Coward
Alex Cox
Iain Crichton Smith
Francis Crick
Quentin Crisp
David Cronenberg
David Cross
Alan Cumming
Marie Curie
Justin Currie
Ron Dakron
Rodney Dangerfield
Julia Darling
Clarence Darrow (agnostic)
Charles Darwin (agnostic)
Russell T. Davies
Mark Jonathan Davis
William B. Davis
Richard Dawkins
The Dead Kennedys (band)
Jeff Dee
Deicide (band)
Frederick Delius
Democritus
Daniel Dennett
David Deutsch
Diagoras
Denis Diderot
Ani DiFranco
Walter 'Walt' Disney
Micky Dolenz
Amanda Donohoe
Phil Donahue
Frederick Douglass
Roddy Doyle
Paul Draper
Roger Ebert
Christopher Eccleston
Dr. Dean Edell
Thomas A. Edison
Paul Edwards
Greg Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich
Paul Ehrlich
Albert Einstein
Danny Elfman
Albert Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
Warren Ellis
Harlan Ellison
William Empson
Garth Ennis
Brian Eno
Epicurus
Extreme (band)
Diane Farr
David Feherty
Jules Feiffer
Larry Fessenden
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
Richard Feynman
John Field
Harvey Fierstein
Filter (band)
Bob Fingerman
Reginald Finley
Heinz Fischer (agnostic)
Brian Flemming
Joseph Fletcher
Larry Flynt
Dario Fo
Dave Foley
James Forman
Jodie Foster
John Fowles
Robin Lane Fox
Benjamin Franklin
Sigmund Freud
Randy Fricke
Richard 'Kinky' Friedman ("Well, as Jesus said to the Mexicans: 'Don't do anything until I get back'.")
Sir Robert Frost
William M. Gaines
Galileo Galilei
Liam and Noel Gallagher
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Janeane Garofalo
Bill Gates
Sir Bob (Robert) Geldof
Jack Germond
Ricky Gervais
Prabhir Ghosh
Sir John Gielgud
Ira Glass
James Gleick
Jean-Luc Godard
Theo van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Emma Goldman
Al Goldstein
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nadine Gordimer
Stephen Jay Gould
Greg Graffin
Ruth Hurmence Green
Seth Green
Stephen Greenblatt
Baroness Susan Greenfield
Germaine Greer
Kathy Griffin
Rachel Griffiths
Kamal Haasan
Ernst Haeckel
Lance Hahn
Joe Haldeman
Kathleen Hanna
Harry Harrison
Lou Harrison
Nina Hartley
Roy Hattersley
James A. Haught
Stephen W. Hawking
Taylor Hawkins
Bill Hayden
Judith Hayes
Robert A. Heinlein
Ernest Hemingway
Nat Hentoff
Katharine Hepburn
Richard Herring
Paul Hester
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Christopher Hitchens
Philip Hobsbaum
Douglas Hofstadter
Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach
General Choi Hong-Hi
Howard Hughes
David Hume
Derek Humphry
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (agnostic)
Robert Green Ingersoll (agnostic)
Thomas Jefferson (deist)
Stephan Jenkins
Penn Jillette
Billy Joel
John of Lackland
Angelina Jolie
Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones
Lionel Jospin
James Joyce
Joachim Kahl
Wendy Kaminer
Jonathan Katz
Dawna Kaufmann
Kawaljeet Kaur
Diane Keaton
Helen Keller
Ludovic Kennedy
Eli Khamarov
Margot Kidder
Kim Il-Sung
Florence King
Neil Kinnock
W. P. Kinsella
Alfred Kinsey
Michael Kinsley
Mark Knopfler
Wim Kok
Dr. Melvin Konner
Frank Kozik
Kramer
Paul Krassner
Stanley Kubrick
Ron Kuby
Milan Kundera
Paul Kurtz
Jacques Lacan
Pierre Simon de Laplace
Ring Lardner Jr.
Charles Laughton
Mr. Lavanam
Anton Szandor LaVey
Richard Leakey
Alexander I. Lebed
Alvin Lee
Bruce Lee
Stewart Lee
Ursula K. LeGuin
Tom Lehrer
Mike Leigh
Stanislaw Lem
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Gerda Lerner
Primo Levi
Michael Lewis
Tom Leykis
Abraham Lincoln
Jim Lindberg
James Lipton
Denis Loube
H.P. Lovecraft
Lucretius
John Lydon (aKa Johnny Rotten)
Ewan MacColl (aKa James Miller)
James Madison
John Malkovich
Mike Malloy
'Manda
Barry Manilow
Marilyn Manson
Shirley Manson
Mao Zedong
Christopher Marlowe
Michael Martin
Harriet Martineau
Karl H. Marx
Nick Mason
Dave Matthews
Armistead Maupin
Joseph McCabe
John McCarthy
Malachy McCourt
Ian McEwan
Todd McFarlane
Montana McGlynn
Sir Ian McKellen
Sarah McLachlan
Alexander McQueen
Jonathan Meades
H.L. Mencken
Antonio Mendoza
Tom Metzger
James Mill
John Stuart Mill
Arthur Miller
Frank Miller
Jonathan Miller
Mike Mills
Marvin Minsky
Warren Mitchell
China Miville
Franois Mitterrand
Momus
John Money
Julianne Moore
Hans Moravec
Henry Morgentaler
Desmond Morris
James Morrow
John Mortimer
Mtorhead (band)
Markos 'Kos' Moulitsas Zniga
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frank Mullen
Benito Mussolini
E.V. Ramasami Naicker
Napoleon I (Bonaparte)
Taslima Nasrin
Ramendra Nath
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ted Nelson
Michael Newdow
Randy Newman
Mike Nichols
Jack Nicholson
Kai Nielsen
Oscar Niemeyer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Larry Niven (agnostic)
Robert Nozick
Gary Numan
Ronald Numbers
Phil Ochs
Bob Odenkirk
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Culbert Olson
George Orwell
Patton Oswalt
Niccol Paganini
Camille Paglia
Thomas Paine (deist?)
Olof Palme
Andy Partridge
Mark Pauline
Linus Carl Pauling
Neil Peart
Leonard Peikoff
Paul Pfalzner
Herman Philipse
Julia Phillips
Ferdinand Piech
Steven Pinker
Ronals Plasterk
Roman Polanski
Neal Pollack
Katha Pollitt
Sir Karl R. Popper
Paula Poundstone
Vladimir Pozner
Terry Pratchett
Protagoras (agnostic)
Paul Provenza
Philip Pullman
Ayn Rand
James Randi
Ron Reagan, Jr.
Christopher Reeve
Rick Reynolds
Trent Reznor
Griff Rhys-Jones
Mordecai Richler
Christopher Ricks
Matt Ridley
Brian Ritchie
Diego Rivera
Brad Roberts
Chris Robinson
Gene Roddenberry
Joe Rogan
Neil Rogers
Henry Rollins
Andy Rooney (agnostic)
Ned Rorem
Richard Rorty
Arundhati Roy
Artur Rubinstein
Jane Rule
Salman Rushdie
Sir Bertrand Russell (agnostic)
Karen Russell
Marquis de Sade
Carl E. Sagan (agnostic)
Mona Sahlin
Sebastio Salgado
Margaret L. Sanger
Robert Sapolsky
Jos Saramago
Pamela Sargent
Jean-Paul Sartre
Max Sawicky
John Sayles
Arthur Schopenhauer
Tom Schulman
Charles Schultz
Eugenie Scott
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger"
Captain Sensible
Nick Seymour
William Shatner
George Bernard Shaw
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert I. Sherman
Michael Shermer
Henry Sidgwick
Robert Silverberg
Bob Simon
Claude Simon
Simplot, J.R.
Peter Singer
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Slayer
J.J.C. Smart
George H. Smith
Robert Smith (football)
Robert Smith
Barbara Smoker
Lee Smolin
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
George Soros
Mira Sorvino
Benjamin Spock
Josef Stalin
Richard M. Stallman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rodney Stark
Peter Steele
Gloria Steinem
Sir Leslie Stephen
Bruce Sterling
Howard Stern
Max Stirner
J. Michael Straczynski
Ken Stringfellow
David Suzuki
Julia Sweeney
Matthew Sweet
Jonathan Swift
Annika Srenstam
Max von Sydow
William Howard Taft
Raymond Teller
Charles Templeton (agnostic)
Studs Terkel
Louis Theroux
Virgil Thomson
Leo Tolstoy
Tom Tomorrow
Linus Torvalds
Leon Trotsky
Solomon Tulbure
Ted Turner
Mark Twain
Eddie Vedder
Giuseppe Verdi
Paul Verhoeven
Etienne Vermeersch
Gore Vidal
Voltaire (deist)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Humanist)
Sarah Vowell
Matt Wagner
Annika Walter
James Watson
Roger Waters
Steven Weinberg
Gene Weingarten
H.G. Wells
Joss Whedon
Earl Wild
Oscar Wilde
Harland Williams
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Sean Williams
Ted Williams
Ian Wilmut
Robert Anton Wilson (agnostic)
Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
Lewis Wolpert
Virginia Woolf
Thomas Woolston
Steve Wozniak
Bruce Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
XTC (band)
Irvin D. Yalom
Lee Kuan Yew (agnostic)
Frank Zappa
Zarkov
Nick Zedd
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