The Mistaken Cult of Free Thinking

Taken literally, ‘to think for oneself’ would involve nothing less than the power of unconditioned will at the level of mental activity—the sort of attribute a theologian might ascribe to God. The anti-nominalists among them would want to stress that even the Almighty Himself cannot be a liberal: God, after all, cannot will anything contrary to the goodness inherent to His own nature. If it is ontologically impossible for the personal ground of all being Himself to be an independent thinker, I struggle to see how Bill Maher manages it.