Abstract
Descartes attitude toward Christianity and revealed religion is a pretty enigmatic issue. On the one hand, we find Descartes making the hyperbolic claim that God creates the eternal truths of mathematics and logic from absolute freedom of indifference: If anyone attends to the immeasurable greatness of God he will find it manifestly clear that there can be nothing whatsoever [nihil omnino esse posse] which does not depend on him. This applies not just to everything that subsists, but to all order, every law, and every reason for anything's being true or good [nullamve rationem veri & boni]. If this were not so, then … God would not have been completely indifferent with respect to the creation of what he did in fact create. (AT VII 435-6 | CSM II 293-4, emphasis added)
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