free·think·er /-ˈθɪŋkɚ/
自由思想家
Free·think·er n. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. --Addison.
Syn: -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel.
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freethinker
n : a person who believes that God created the universe and then
abandoned it [syn: deist]