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A Big Problem in philosophy, is picking (or rather assuming) the wrong starting point for enquiry, for analysis and reasoning; and there has been and is massive propaganda to encourage this fatal error...In particular to ignore or reflexly reject a child's innate and spontaneous assumptions, and to start from... Somewhere else... Anywhere else!It turns out that these alternative starting assumptions are always abstract, difficult, unintuitive, artificial.This applies to all traditional philosophy, especially since Descartes, and to Christianity.To be A Christian, according to nearly all churches, one must First accept as foundational dogmas several counter-intuitive assumptions (regarding the nature of creation, God, Jesus...) within-which the entirely of Christianity is Compelled to exist.Alternatively we Could assume what is natural, spontaneous, innate...