He came from agnosticism to Catholicism, not like Chesterton by revulsion from the inanities and absurdities of liberal thought, but by following hints and clues that he found in his agnostic authors. He read the agnostics as an agnostic, sympathetically. One and all they had their part in leading him to Catholicism. It is a novel and interesting narrative which leads one to conclude that there are no atheists. At least no thinkers are atheists.
Freethinkers rise to that bait more surely than a trout to the fly and snap at it more viciously.
But it is equally axiomatic that freethinkers do not think freely. Well, suppose a freethinker thinks himself into religion. Ipso facto he is rated a renegade and apostate. He is free to think atheism, but not free to think theism. Sometimes a freethinker lets the cat out of the bag.