Runa, you may want to get ahold of some of Hayek's writings in defense of religion and tradition. The methodologies of religion and tradition, which consists of inspiration, reason, and implementation of tradition (with dealing with its consequences) has ended up producing codes of behavior by means that seem absurd, but which end up working better. The process is not rational. The same could be said for language and other parts of culture also. You follow something rational, and you produces languages like Esperanto, or an ethics system like Objectivism, which culturally are both abominations to some extent.
If you think of all existence as evolutionary, with bits of revolution thrown in, then the process is not rational, or logical at all. It is what it is, with superior methodologies appearing through trial and error on human existence. The short of it, the process of the generation of human culture is not a rational process at all. Rationality is part of it, but not the main part. I believe Star Trek even had Spock in the end saying something like: Reason is the beginning of wisdom.
Edit, and I can close here with more on Chesterton:
santitafarella.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/g-k-chestertons-defense-of-mysticism-and-poetry/
Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in the earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also. . . . It is exactly this balance of apparent contradictions that has been the whole buoyancy of the healthy man. The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand.
