Religion and logic

Wapo writer Michael Gerson has an article on why the church's defense of reason has many implications:

Secularism has traditionally taught that human beings will eventually outgrow religious conviction and moral absolutism -- that skepticism is evidence of maturity. Benedict contends that modern men and women, unguided by reasoned moral beliefs, turn toward adolescent self-involvement. Their intellectual growth is stunted. In a world where all moral claims are seen as equally true and equally false -- the world, for example, of the modern university -- human conscience is reduced to biology or prejudice.

Since even science depends on "faith" that the universe is reasonable, this has a wide implication to society...