In less prosperous schools and colleges, religion may, at day» s end, be the only realdifferencebetween public and private — and the return on that investment, while perhaps significant, can not be easily measured.
There is a small differencebetween axioms in mathematics (that lead to consistent systems of derived theorems) and axioms regarding the real world, and a greater difference still between those axioms (which lead to inferences and probable truth) and the axioms of religion.