RE: God did it
I wrote this post a while ago, so I had to reread it. But I think the message I was trying to portray here wasn't that logic is better than emotion. But that rational thinking is required in ALL things. It has less to do with what you believe and more with why you believe it. I made the argument that most religious people have no idea where their religions came from. And this topic has many, very factual answers. It has been researched by scholars for a thousand years. So why aren't religious people interested enough to actually look it up? They rather believe the stories they hear, given to them by people who are less qualified than the average 5 year old. I want to encourage people to actually learn about their religions, so that they can hold an argument when faced with a logic-throwing atheist.
I got your point. To answer your question, religious belief or faith itself isn't something that can be debated. When people come from different perspectives, it becomes a worthless exercise. The historical research of religions may be something many believers and non-believers are not familiar with and debating that is always useful. One also needs to remember that even historians start out from a certain bias, so the debate can be hard, but useful all the same because it can lead to knowledge and enlightenment, regardless of one's faith or lack thereof.