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FA HSIEN (late 4th or early 5th century):
 
FABIANS:
 
FACT:
 
FAITH:
 
FALL OF MAN:
 
FALLACY:
 
FALSIFIABILITY:
 
FALWELL, Jerry (1934):
 
FAMILY OF LOVE:
 
FANON, Franz (1925-1961):
 
FARABI, Abu Nasr Muhammad (d. 950 aged about 80):
 
FAREL, Guillaume (1489-1565):
 
FARRER, Austin Marsden (1904-1969):
 
FARRER, Frederick William (1831-1903):
 
FATE:
 
FATHERHOOD OF GOD:
 
FTIHAH:
 
FATIMA (7th century):
 
FATWA:
 
FERGUSON, Marilyn Grasso (1938-):
 
FESTIVALS:
 
FETISH:
 
FEUERBACH, Ludwig Andreas (1804-1872):
 
FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814):
 
FIDEISM:
 
FILIAL PIETY:
 
FILIOQUE CLAUSE:
 
FINAL CAUSE:
 
FINITE:
 
FINNEY, Charles Grandison (1792-1875):
 
FIQH:
 
FISH:
 
FITNAH:
 
FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM:
 
FLAGELLATION:
 
FLEW, Anthony (1923-):
 
FLOOD:
 
FLORENCE, COUNCIL OF:
 
FLUX:
 
FOLK RELIGION:
 
FOOD:
 
FORD, Henry (1863-1947):
 
FOREKNOWLEDGE:
 
FORM:
 
FORM CRITICISM:
 
FORM-MATTER GROUNDMOTIVE:
 
FORMAL:
 
FORMGESCHICHTE:
 
FORMLESS:
 
FOSDICK, Harry, Emerson (1878-1969):
 
FOUCAULT, Michel (1926-1988):
 
FOUR HOLY TRUTHS:
 
FOUR NOBEL TRUTHS:
 
FOX, George (1624-1691):
 
FOX, Matthew (1940-):
 
FOXE, John (1516-1587):
 
FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1181?-1226):
 
FRANCIS OF SALES (1567-1622):
 
FRANCISCANS:
 
FRAZER, Sir James George (1854-1941):
 
FREE THINKERS:
 
FREEDOM:
 
FREEMASONRY:
 
FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1940):
 
FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF:
 
FROEBEL, Friedrick Wilhelm August (1782-1852):
 
FROMM, Eric (1900-1980):
 
FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845):
 
FUNDAMENTALISM:
 
FUNDAMENTALIST:
 
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FREE THINKERS:

people who refuse to reject the AUTHORITY of RELIGION in favor of a BELIEF in REASON as the ultimate and only AUTHORITY in human affairs. TRADITIONALLY free thinkers have been violently anti-religious although this need not necessarily be so.

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