Critical Thinking will make you question the motivation of religious leaders, when you realise they themselves are the biggest sinners, you become woke (the modern term for enlightened). For they sin against a multitude of people as you may only sin against a few. Being associated with an organised religion or any large group of people, you risk the notion of being labeled by others. Atheism of being atheist is not about rejecting god, it's about not finding a god. If you are or perceived as an atheist you probably don't belong to any one political party as well. Then you get labeled as a centrist or a moderate when in fact you're politically atheist?
Emancipation is total freedom restricted only by ones environment. The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
