[aruanan]

Whenever I try and talk "reasonably" with someone who is a follower of organized/revealed religion, the person with whom I'm conversing inevitably falls back on the "faith" argument.

The problem is that you're both laboring under the modern notion that faith is the antithesis of reason. For more information on how this came about, see Escape from Reason, by Francis Schaeffer, and its more developed treatment in The God Who Is There by the same author.

[WackySam]

The problem is that you're both laboring under the modern notion that faith is the antithesis of reason.

IMHO, believing in *any* organized religion *is* the antithesis of reason. They can not share the same space (and FWIW- I feel exactly the same way about atheism) .

The Creator knows my pure thoughts on the matter and I am fine with that. If I'm wrong in my beliefs, and banished to "hell", so be it. I won't be going with a guilty conscious.