An Interesting Play on the Word "Liberal"

"For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more
liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them. Why, I cannot
imagine, nor can anybody tell me. For some inconceivable cause a "broad"
or "liberal" clergyman always means a man who wishes at least to diminish the
number of miracles; it never means a man who wishes to increase that
number. It always means a man who is free to disbelieve that Christ came
out of His grave; it never means a man who is free to disbelieve that Christ
came out of His grave."

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908

A true free thinker is one who can imagine miracles, not one who disbelieves them. A true free thinker is one who questions the irrationality of restrictive naturalism. A true free thinker rejects determinism and accepts a first cause (that being God). All the University elites and political liberals that pride themselves in being free thinkers ought to look in the mirror and really ask themselves whether the denunciation of the supernatural and the elevation of the State is really a path to true freedom. That would be a scary exercise in free thinking for them.