[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

I think there's a balance between religion and logic that no one seems to be able to find. Ironically, I think that as human brains developed (evolution), they began to try to make sense of their surrounding, and this is where religion may have begun (just my assumption, no one bite my head off).

I do have a problem with the mixing of state and religion. This country has not suffered through the centuries of warfare (in our own soil) due to religion, and I think this is why people easily dismiss the problems with religion dictating policy.

As to mixing religion and logic - Some religious individuals ignore the logical paradoxes created by a belief in God and some secularists say the paradoxes are prove of religion's illogic. On the other hand, many rational people see the paradoxes as posing and encapsulating questions which cannot be answered through simple finite logic. I also agree that the drive behind religion is trying to make sense of our surroundings and things we don't understand. As I have said before, at their best, both religion and science strive to find the truth.