It is better to be super!

This is an obscure topic in modern discussion predominantly due to the assumption that all religion is inherently supernatural, meaning that it is above or beyond nature. Even nature worshipping religions such as Druidism or other pantheistic religions that attribute divinity to all things in nature, are supernatural. However, Natural Religion, as defined by Merriam-Webster is "religion based on reason and experience apart from divine or supernatural revelation". Supernatural religion is built upon Natural religion in that it contains all religion based on reason and experience derived apart from Divine Revelation, and it is supernatural in that it also has information obtained by Divine Revelation. Christianity, as a whole, from Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism lies on a spectrum of natural to supernatural religion. A spectrum that can be seen as a balance of Faith and Reason.

This, crudely made line (I apologize), demonstrates in a rough manner the spectrum of faith and reason, and the points in which I apply broad categories. These categories are not all inclusive. As an unfortunate side effect of Protestantism the variety of professed belief can cause one group of the Lutheran, Calvinist, Wesleyan, Presbyterian, etc. churches to be more or less "faith alone" and apply more or less reason to their theology and professions. The other side of that unfortunate circumstance is that there can be another group of the same professed faith, that could be a fundamental opposite to the previously described one. 

Natural Religion has the characteristics of reason and experience towards the worship of God, as determined by reason and experience. However, when you elevate to the Supernatural from the natural you are supposed to retain all of the previous characteristics, and then build upon them. However, at a certain point, based upon the respective denominational theology, there may be an antithesis on Reason, and a more total reliance on Faith; or vice versa. This, if you recall from the article on the Soul, you would remember that the soul has an attribute of reason to it, and when one delves into the supernatural and denies the reason, the faith of the person becomes uneasy, and in most cases reliant on emotional input. This unfortunately is the result of going against one's nature, the same with being completely reliant on reason will cause you to abandon faith. 

The opposite side of the Faith Alone group is the Reason Alone. This group is most predominantly filled with the Gnostics, an old heretical group wherein the spirit was grown and obtained salvation through learning the various mystical aspects of the faith, and through performing various rites to hopefully enter heaven at the time of death (read more here). Aside from the Gnostics, this side of the spectrum is home to the people who deny the necessity of faith, which is covered in many ways through a long list of heresies in history, but not to the point of Atheism or Agnosticism as this is the Natural Religion of denying faith in anything divinely revealed. 

In the center you will see that I placed the Catholic Churches (East and West), as the Catholic Church has established the necessity of Faith and Reason, the fullness of natural religion elevated to higher understanding through divine revelation. The Western Catholic Church (think of the Roman Rite) has a tad more theology and philosophy explained in terms of rationality to better understand the faith, and still has great mystics that have a lot of the spiritual and faithful influence over the influence of the reason, but retains the reason due to being a "western" catholic. The Eastern Catholic, due to the various rites and churches being in communion with the Bishop of Rome, adheres to the rationality of the Western Churches, but have a greater, in most cases a cultural influence on the mysticism in their practice. 

The Orthodox churches have a more "faith" interpretation than "reason" in their theological definitions by the tendency to just trust in God in what He said instead of trying to give an explanation to the belief in addition to the trust of God. For example, the Orthodox and Catholic Churches believe in Transubstantiation of the Eucharist (it becomes the Body and Blood of Christ), but the Orthodox churches do not apply a definition to the miraculous act as the Catholic Church does. They both believe it all the same, just one gives a name to the act, the other lets it remain a mystery of faith.

So the better option is to take the reason and experience that God has given us, as an attribute of our soul, and accept the divine revelation that He has revealed through His Church and in Jesus Christ. It is better to be Supernatural than it is to remain natural. In the Supernatural faith, our Supernatural substance (our soul) is nourished and grows closer to God in ways that one cannot in the Natural Religion. In Natural Religion, we rely too much on the rational, and are without the faith aspect. On the extreme side of the Supernatural we can rely too much on faith, disregarding our rationality, and can have an empty faith based upon feelings instead of reason. To be Rational and Faithful is to have a Supernatural Religion, to have both through Jesus Christ and His Church is to be a Christian.