The most misunderstood relationship is that between Man and God.  The atheist decries it because he feels to allow its existence would somehow belittle man himself.  The agnostic doubts its existence because it would infer that man is inferior to something beyond his understanding, although there must certainly be things beyond our understanding.  The believer believes for a variety of reasons, all of which stem from some form of fear.  All feel the relationship, if it exists or not, is complex and incomprehensible.

Yet, it is the attitude of man to this relationship that is the truest complexity.

Witness the atheist:  he denies the existence of God, for whatever rationalization.  Yet, if the concept of God did not exist, their own system of belief, which is based on the denial of that concept, would collapse.

Witness the agnostic:  he doubts the existence of God, yet is supposedly willing to accept His existence with proper proof.  Never mind that, no matter how extensive, how numerous the proofs might be, there would always be more needed to satisfy him.

Witness the believer:  he hangs on to a belief in a being beyond his understanding and weakly tries to defend its existence to the atheist and agnostic.

The truest of freethinkers is bound by no definition of God or man.  He is interested, not in what he himself believes, but in the Truth.  The Truth may be impossible for him to believe, but at least he is aware of this and accepts it.

The freethinker is a believer in Simplicity.  The simplest solution must be the closest to the Truth, for Truth must be simple.  Unconditional.  Pure.  Homogenous.  Simple.

Most importantly, the freethinker is willing to disbelieve.  He is willing to be educated away from current understanding into new understanding.  There is no Unruth, only distances from Truth itself, different interpretations of the Truth.  Still, the end goal of the freethinker is Simplicity, close to the Truth.

We can equate Truth and God because they are both concepts of Simplicity.  Each is creator of existence, and each is a method of understanding Existence in Truth.

Thus, the freethinker’s ultimate goal is to find God, through atheism, agnosticism, or believing.  The paths are all spokes to a common hub.  Or a common wheel.