A recent post on Good Math, Bad Math caught my attention this morning. The article talk about mathematics being independent of a deity; mathematics is based on abstract reasoning so it will be consistent whether the universe was created by a benevolent deity or whether it just is. The article is in response to a geometry class description at a Baptist high school. However, a comment by chaos_engineer just made me laugh out loud.
Of course. Christians would be taught real geometry, with the Euclidean version of the parallel postulate.
People who practice flawed religions would naturally be more comfortable studying flawed, non-Euclidean geometries. Jews could learn Riemann’s version of the parallel postulate, Muslims could learn Lobachevksy’s, and atheists could learn H. P. Lovecraft’s.
OK, so maybe it is just funny if you are an amateur mathematician and a fan of H. P. Lovecraft. However, I am both 
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I am comfortable in saying that I’m totally lost here.