Christian presuppositionalists assert--for the very nature of presuppositionalism is one of asinine, blind assertions--that every non-Christian must knowingly or unknowingly borrow from the Christian worldview to make any statement about metaphysics and ethics. Due to making this claim, they set themselves up for the ultimate philosophical irony. To be a presuppositionalist, one must dismiss rationalism, but to dismiss rationalism, one must borrow from it.
Indeed, all worldviews borrow in some way from rationalism, even when their adherents would fiercely and unrelentingly deny it! Even someone who despises rationalism cannot help but use reason, albeit very ineptly, in their own doomed rejection of or attack on reason. It does not matter what the attack on reason is done in the name of; whether God, self, or some assumption or preference is the priority, opposition to reason can only end one way.
It is not non-Christians that inevitably borrow from Christianity by appealing to the laws of logic (whether they think or argue in a fallacious manner or not), but non-rationalists that borrow from rationalism every time they argue against it. Even the most stubborn, fallacious presuppositionalist must use reason to reflect on what their own position is and is not--not to mention to formulate arguments for it, although those arguments are inherently unsound.
Presuppositionalism is the height of stupidity, for it entails not only blatant assumptions and a blatant, self-refuting view of the laws of reason as something less than supreme, but the assumptions that it entails are about some of the most important issues that could be contemplated. If a matter is significant, the worst possible way to arrive at its truths is through a blind leap, which is all that presuppositionalism can offer.
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