>>13512057No. Religion is based on a belief that reason is subordinate to faith, that the natural world is not completely comprehensible, that the supernatural realm is superior to all and that man is nothing in the face of one's professed deity, so that one must pray and submit. Mathematics is based on a conviction that reason is absolute, that the world is comprehensible, and that one can acquire true knowledge about the universe and thus about oneself, so that one must work hard and think. Religious individuals can rationalize and/or compartmentalize mathematical thought with their religious beliefs, but that doesn't change the fact that faith isn't required to do good mathematics. Religion and mathematics stem from completely different epistemologies and are at right angles to each other; one cannot straddle that particular fence for too long without a considerable amount of cognitive dissonance.
inb4 "muh axioms". Change your axioms, or make sure the axioms accord well with basic measurement and counting in the real world. The fact that various axiomatic systems are possible does not contradict that statements can be deduced from the axioms that are true within those systems, nor does it contradict the fact that we can use and have used various mathematical results to model (with greater or lesser) the real world.
