What's the difference between deist and freethinker?
Deist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) During subsequent open prostatectomy, a condition analogous to dilation with the Deisting dilator was seen.
(2) Whether or not it would exercise that capacity was another issue, and in Empire (2003) he worried that "in the absence of formal empire it must be open to question how far the dissemination of western 'civilisation' - meaning the Protestant-Deist-Catholic-Jewish mix that emanates from modern America - can safely be entrusted to Messrs Disney and McDonald".
(3) We conclude that the indications and results obtained with the balloon dilator are similar to those with the Deisting dilator.
Freethinker
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, Dreyer's adoptive parents, Carl and Marie Dreyer - a freethinking leftist typesetter and a wife who already had an illegitimate daughter by another man - never set foot inside a church unless they had to, and their adopted son was a non-believer who attended occasional services at a French reform church, but only in order to teach himself the language.
(2) But in the 1920s, scarred by the crackdown on German Americans and socialists during World War I, he was a radical freethinker who noisily waged war against the booboisie (his term for the stupid and the gullible), religion and the business-dominated status quo, who ridiculed Warren Harding and supported Sacco and Vanzetti.
(3) Party leaders don't want irreverent, troublesome, freethinking mavericks.
(4) I have profound interest in freethinking, skepticism, philosophy, scientific thoughts and human rights of people,” he wrote.
(5) Like Lee, Wilson is left-handed, freethinking and indubitably quotable.
(6) The annual "war on Christmas" took an unexpected twist this holiday season, when the UK-based website the Freethinker published the ironic headline " First known casualty in America's 2013 'War on Xmas' turns out to be a Salvation Army member ".
(7) They decided that the modern and socialist thing to do was silence freethinkers.
(8) "The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression," he later wrote.