(April 17, 2013 at 4:40 pm)Tex Wrote: My diagram would look exactly like his, but with Christianity on the outside and he's walling himself into atheism. By limiting his scope of knowledge, he's making himself less free, not more.
How is he limiting his knowledge? Any presupposition which never progresses beyond presupposition is not knowledge. If I am to be as generous as I can be, Christianity can never be more than an educated guess, and it almost never even approaches that. That isn't knowledge. The last 400 years of science has demonstrated loudly that even if every single word of the Bible is absolutely valid, the Christian religion does not even begin anything but the most insignificant sliver of the truth of the universe and what is in it. The Bible isn't even aware of a universe beyond a tiny backwater of the planet it's set on. With many major sects of Christianity at war with science to some varying degree, it is hard to say that the religion encourages understanding beyond what it purports to provide. Therefore, the diagram above is a very accurate depiction.
