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I take issue with the suggestion CSflim makes, that faith is antithetical to reason. Faith is not rational, I'll give you that, but that doesn't mean that faith is opposed to reason either. Rather, reason points out its own limits, and shows that faith (and not just religious faith) is necessary. Kant and Kierkegaard are good examples. Kant argues that we can't have evidence for the existence of God directly (which I disagree with), but he does argue that we can know God exists, because he is the 'condition of possibility' of ethics. If we consider that, for Kant, reason can explain the empirical world, but not the noumenal world, this is a perfect example of reason pointing the way to faith. For Kierkegaard, reason can be used to point out the limitations of an ethical life, and that what is necessary for an ethical life is a religious life, but it can't get us to a religious life. For that, we need the 'leap of faith'. But in neither example is faith opposed to reason.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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