Faith and Reason

What troubles me is the notion of reason.
Individuals are able to "reason" whatever they choose.
Sometimes, I question my own narcissism when I try to reason certain things because I must not be the only thinking human being. Someone else must believe his or her idea is equally valid.
Reason can persuade or dissuade.
It can be perceived as truth. To some individuals, reason is enough to discredit faith.

Furthermore, reason and faith are often seen as antithetical concepts. Antithetical in the sense of "war" and "peace." To some, war and peace are opposites because they are within the same realm of explanation--or perhaps spectrum. A bit of a limited spectrum...nonetheless-- War appears to be the opposite of peace.  One straight line. War is one extreme. Peace is the other. People's perceptions of this are somewhere in between.

And this same argument is used regarding faith and reason.

Faith is one extreme. Reason is another.
But I have come to see reason as one line and faith as another.
I think the lines or spectrum are parallel.
Reason seems to be about the physical realities. I can reason about a science experiment. I can conduct scientific theory.

Faith, on the other hand, is not well reasoned because of its own definition.
If faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see, I am sure that people have faith in many different ideas or beliefs. But faith is not about the results of an experiment. Faith is about something that I cannot touch with my hands.

So, for this reason, I cannot see faith on the same "line" as reason.

Maybe the ideas are antithetical concepts, but their definitions and their realities are not.