is the freedom to say that 2 + 2
is no more nor less than the number of ones in (1 + 1) + (1 + 1)
How could that be what freedom is?
Who would deny that that is what 2 +
2 is?
And how would their denying it get in the way of our being
free?
Surprisingly, it is the experts on numbers who deny it.
A hundred years ago, academic mathematicians redefined the terminology of arithmetic in order to lose an arithmetical puzzle in that translation, because although the puzzling arithmetic does make sense if there is a God like the Trinity who geometrizes continually (see below for the details), academic mathematicians could find no other way of making sense of that arithmetic, and academia was becoming increasingly atheistic in the twentieth century, especially in subjects that used a lot of mathematics (the sciences had started to get atheistic in the second half of the nineteenth century because of an agnostic biologist, Charles Darwin).
Now, academia should not have become so atheistic, because insofar as that arithmetic only makes sense if there is a God, it proves that there is a God (and that arithmetic had been discovered in the second half of the nineteenth century by a Lutheran mathematician, Georg Cantor, who thought that God had revealed it to him).
However, that proof was hidden by those mathematical redefinitions, and by related redefinitions of words like proof, logic and truth, because of a related logical puzzle discovered by an atheist aristocrat, Bertrand Russell, at the start of the twentieth century. Still, maybe that proof will not remain hidden for another hundred years (God does seem to get better results on longer timescales). In any case, the truth will set you free.
For the details of the proof, click on this link: Freedom
That link opens an eight-thousand-word Google Document called "Freedom" in a new window.
