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>Roger Scruton remained a Christian all of his life and often read to his family from the Bible. One story about his religion during his stay in Coventry involved the atheistic philosopher Nick Land. Land had been invited to the University of Warwick by Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, but then annoyed her by trying to convert everyone to atheism. The Baroness asked Scruton for help, and he informed Land, who was ignorant of mathematics, that he would present in the auditorium an algebraic proof of the existence of God, if Land wanted to hear it. Land was interested, and, according to Sadie Plant, Scruton advanced toward Land, and said gravely, and in a tone of perfect conviction: “Sir, (a + bn) / n = x , hence God exists; reply! ” Land had no reply, and the students and faculty broke into laughter. Land immediately retired to Hong Kong after a final amphetamine binge and nonsensical 400 paragraph blogpost.

What did he mean by this?