Faith is not Anti-thetical to Reason

As a teen there was a certain pleasure in the pseudo-intellectual affirmation of atheism and decrying religion as superstition. (That such an exercise was an "affirmation" should have revealed its fallacy, but alas, the idealism of youth is blind!) As our cultural pendulum swings away from the pull of the Religious Right there is once again a rising assertion of the intellectual superiority of being areligious (not irreligious, but a-religious). And some folks are using a carefully culled reading of scientific discoveries to reassert the claim of faith as synonymous with superstition. Which I find hysterical because the more I come to understand about quantum physics and the more I read about the findings of geneticists and the genome project the more Truth I find in Genesis. The Christianity of Paul and the early Church wasn't one where you parked your brain at the door. The letter to the Romans is incredibly challenging intellectually if we're willing to give more than a cursory read. The Cappadocian fathers wrestled with existential questions as deeply and more as any of our current philosophers and critics of religion. With that said, you may find this blog posting by Stanley Fish interesting. http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/god-talk/?th&emc=th