How far is too far for Paladin?

I've found many religious writers with aspirations to academia fall into that category. Being driven by your faith makes it very difficult indeed to present a case which stands up to rational analysis unless you are willing to evaluate it from a neutral perspective, at which point it stops really being "faith"

I disagree. That's exactly what faith is.

I think you're misunderstanding one another there. Unless I am very much mistaken, you're both saying that faith is not something that the faithful examine from a neutral perspective, at least not when they deal with it AS faith.

Not sure you've interpreted my post the way it was intended bud

By the way, I tried a hot sauce rated at 6 million Scoville units recently.

I can tell you that was too far for Paladin.

I don't see one being able to make a rational case for religious faith at all.

Maybe not, but the point was the moment you start rationally analysing a thing or employing critical thinking it no longer falls under the remit of faith.