Freethinkers Day 2025 is on Wednesday, January 29, 2025: FREETHINKERS: What un-holiday should we celebrate to claim our freedom from religion?

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 is Freethinkers Day 2025. Thomas Paine memes known as Freethinkers Day

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Freethinkers Day falls around the birthday of Thomas Paine, a prominent thinker whose work and guides marketing a philosophy of Enlightenment heavily affected the path of the American and French revolutions.Embrace Freethinkers Day by challenging arbitrary authority, questioning things as they are, and creating logical and reasonable arguments against engrained behavior.

HumanLight (December 23rd) celebrates Humanism and the choice many have made to live their lives by the guidance of reason and human compassion.

There is already a Freethought Day (called Freethought "Coming Out" Day by some), celebrated in Sacramento, California, each October 12th. It's an annual celebration of "freethought, liberty of conscience, naturalistic ethics, secular government, and civic values." On October 12, 1692, Massachusetts' colonial governor, William Phipps, issued an edict ending the acceptability of "spectral evidence" in court proceedings. (Such superstition-based "evidence" was much abused in the horrendous Salem Witch trials.)

I personally would like to have a celebration of Thomas Paine Day on the anniversary of his birth: January 29th.

Oh, and then there's the secularists' alternative to the National Day of Prayer, called the National Day of Reason.

JAT: "[W]here do people like Steve S go to school? 'There are no atheists??'"

Don't mind him. "There are no atheists" is his mantra. He thinks that, if he writes it often enough, he'll eventually convince himself that it's true.

Is there a difference between atheists, humanists and freethinkers? AND(see details)?

According to Encarta dictionary,

An atheist is:

An "unbeliever in God or deities: Somebody who does not believe in God or deities."

humanism is:

"1. [A] belief in human-based morality: a system of thought that is based on the values, characteristics, & behavior that are believed to be best in human beings, rather than on any supernatural authority.

2. [A] concern for people: a concern with the needs, well-being, and interests of people.

3. [A] Renaissance cultural movement."

(I won't quote the entire meaning of this entry, as it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand!)

A humanist is:

"1. A believer in the principles of humanism.

2.One who's concerned with the interests & welfare of humans.

3. a)A classical scholar.

b)A student of the liberal arts.

4. A Renaissance scholar devoted to Humanism."

A freethinker is:

"Somebody who does not accept dogma: An independent thinker who refuses to accept established views or teachings, especially on religion."

& finally, dogma is:

"1. [A] religious belief: A belief or set of beliefs that a religion holds to be true.

2. [A] group belief: A belief or set of beliefs that a political, philosophical, or moral group holds to be true."

According to these definitions, an atheist can either be a humanist, a freethinker, or both -- but does not necessarily have to be one.

A freethinker may not necessarily be an atheist. Just because a person is an independent thinker who rejects established religious views, doesn't necessarily mean they reject the existence of a supreme being, of God.

A humanist may be a freethinker, but not necessarily. However, they are likely to be an atheist, since their system of morals does not depend on a supernatural being and the qualities and characteristics of such a deity.

So to sum up:

An atheist may be/can be a humanist, but not necessarily.

An atheist may be/can be a freethinker, but not necessarily.

A humanist is reasonably expected to be an atheist.

A humanist may be/can be a freethinker, but not necessarily.

A freethinker is no more likely to be a humanist or an atheist than another person, one who is not a freethinker.

I hope that helped. Good luck to you in all your endeavours. Take very good care and have yourself a most joyous day, every day.

Love And Light

Cogano

Are athiests freethinkers?

most of them are as rigid in their beliefs-or lack thereof-as xian fundamentalists are in theirs.both groups are so set in their ways,they talk of nothing else all day long,and are of no use @ parties...both sides,lighten up once in awhile !!!!!!!