The next 22 questions may help you to determine if you are a freethinker.
1. Do you believe that society should have a system of justice to help ensure that wrongdoers pay restitution to their victims?
Yes
No
Maybe
No Opinion
2. Do you believe in the sovereignty of the individual (as opposed to individuals being subservient to a social group
3. Do you believe that you learned right from wrong, that most people should learn right from wrong, by instruction and examples set by family and friends?
4. Do you feel that individual humans are responsible for their personal well-being, within their capabilities for self-sufficiency?
5. Do you believe in equality of opportunity for all individuals, without regard to gender, race, creed or nationality?
6. Do you feel that instilling fear of persecution in an afterlife for doing wrong in this life is an unwarranted form of social control?
7. Do you believe that society should have a program for alleviating the suffering of individuals who, through circumstance, cannot be self-sufficient?
8. Do you believe that human beings are capable of solving their problems, individual and social, by intelligent pursuit and cooperative effort?
9. Would you like to be a part of a social community of like-minded individuals?
10. Do you believe that human beings evolved on planet Earth?
11. Do you consider yourself a free thinking individual, one who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of any authority?
12. Do you believe that humans can develop a sense of what is right or wrong by using their powers of reason?
13. Do you avoid attending church services?
14. Do you believe that most aspects of your life are governed by yourself, that you are basically a self-governed individual?
15. Do you believe that our life on Earth is the only one we have, and that there is no such thing as an afterlife?
16. Do you consider yourself a member of the human race, embracing all human beings?
17. Do you believe in the concept of universal, noncontradictory rights, i.e., things to which every human has a just claim without interfering with the rights of others, such as life, liberty, honestly acquired property, and the pursuit of happiness
18. Do you believe that political democracy, as popularly understood, i.e., representative government in a constitutional republic, is the best form of political government yet developed by human beings, and most likely to preserve the freedom of its members?
19. Do you feel that guilt is an unwarranted form of social control?
20. Do you feel compassion for fellow human beings less fortunate than yourself?
21. Do you believe there are fundamental laws of nature which govern the universe, such as gravity, physics, evolution, etc
22. Do you feel a need or desire to be part of a human community beyond the family sphere