Faith vs. Logic

For whatever reason, I kind of love reading forums on the internet. They are very interesting, thought-provoking....it gets especially interesting when you start reading threads on the forums regarding religion...

For instance, I recently became a member of a snowboarding forum. On this forum they also have a Politics section (ha. It seems that many of the snowboarding community--at least on this forum-- lean really far left politically...very interesante), which happens to have threads about religion in it. One thread was entitled something along the lines of "Religion is Poison" or something like that. I pulled it up on my browser.....man. Wow. The basic premise is that pretty much all religion is bad because religious people force their ideas onto others and are pretty much not intelligent enough to think for ourselves, hence why we lean on religion and not use our brains.
Of course, such a strong thesis will draw others into the discussion, and then you get people from all over the map stating their opinions. There's always a couple Christians in the mix as well, and they do their best to explain and to argue why God is real, how its really about relationship and not even about religion, how not all of us are like those crazy fundamentalists the media is so fond of pointing out..... and I've seen this happen on multiple forums, multiple times.
Which then brings up questions from the atheists and others---where's the proof? How do you know there is a God? What about creation vs. evolution---how do you fight science and the evidence? (Often these questions are posed in a way that can feel somewhat threatening to the Christian on the forum. Usually the questions are not meant to be threatening--they are good questions--but the sheer number of people asking them can be intimidating).
What then happens Mr. Christian tries to defend His faith. (Or they start complaining that they are being attacked simply because they are being questioned....but that is for another day...) And this is what I have an issue with--not the fact that He tries to defend it, but the fact that this person can't do it with logic.

I see this in Christian circles a lot. Its all about the feelings/emotions--feeling that God is there, etc. And that is not a bad thing. I myself am one of those people who falls into the catagory of not-so-logical. But the church can sometimes forget that there are plenty of people out there who need to understand with logic. they need to think it through. And hello, God created logic---it is not an evil thing. We are told to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. We need to be able to explain why we believe what we believe--and even if it is mostly feeling-based, logic is involved as well. I think any Christian who wants to live like a Christian in this world today needs to be able to back up their faith. Research your faith. Know the history of it. Understand why you believe it.

And one more thing--the topic of faith. This is always the thing--how do you explain an unseen Being logically? There is always a measure of faith involved. But my point is that there is logic as well as faith involved here. There are times when you follow God where there is a blind leap of faith, but we need to remember that God is a God of logic as well as faith, He created us with the ability to ask questions, think things through, use the brains He has given us.

P.S. I am definitely not claiming to have a ton of answers here, and I will be the first to admit that I am not the best about doing my homework as far as figuring out why I belive God and explaining that logically. These are just some thoughts that I've had for a while now....