I Find It Offensive; How About You

[Faith No More]

Just like adolescents choose to be independent in their fashion choices yet mostly end up looking the same, so Atheists choose to be free thinkers yet end up thinking the same as the majority.

You are committing classic psychological projection.

That's what the inference of a default position is... lack of thought. Unless you're saying that newborn babies have a thoughtful opposition?

You are assuming that anyone who is an atheist just hasn't thought about their position. I'm not sure what newborn babies have to do with this, but if you're equating them with all atheists you're either being disingenuous or outright stupid.

Then when you're capable of thought... it takes no thought to not believe something.

Sure, not believing in something doesn't require thought, but that does not mean that anyone who doesn't believe hasn't put any thought into it.

You could then not think for yourself and believe what you're told or what everyone around you thinks... but still we're not at the point of free thinking. So the probability of an atheist being a free thinker is stacked against them already.

This assumes that all atheists are raised to be atheists. What you're forgetting is that your religion has done plenty to turn people away, people who didn't automatically believe what they're told. So if not automatically believing what you're told is the requirement for being a freethinker then it is stacked against the theist.

Look fr0d0, I agree that freethinker is not a term that should be used in place of any one belief system, but in trying to defend your position you are making grossly ignorant generalizations and talking out of your ass.