From somewhere in a Usenet newsgroup

Faith and reason are somehow uncontradictory, but we don't know how? Then BOTH are useless!

If it just seems that faith and reason are contradictory, which do we trust? Do we adopt orwellian doublethink and adopt both?

The articles of Christian faith are not logical, not reasonable. So much so that Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism, called apon the Christian to abandon his reason. Anything more unreasonable than Original Sin, the Atonement or the Trinity would be hard to imagine.

But you say use reason AND faith? How?

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## "Die verfluchte Huhre, Vermunft" -- "The damned whore, Reason" Martin Luther

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Cited in the Wikipedia article:

"But since the devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because [reason] is the Devil's greatest whore." (German: "Vernunft ... ist die höchste Hur, die der Teufel hat.") -- "Martin Luther's Last Sermon in Wittenberg ... Second Sunday in Epiphany, 17 January 1546." Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtsusgabe. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1914),Band 51:126,Line 7ff.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the Divine Word.... [Said to be from Table Talk]

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God [Said to be from V, 1312]