This stuff your symbol of faith?

Yes, that's all.

You champion reason, logic, critical thinking, and knowing in everything except the core stuff your religion is based on?

Yes, because religion is necessary for things that fundamentally can't be explained by science. From all religions I prefer Orthodox Christianity for this,

You have to appeal to blind faith because you cannot prove the central tenets of your religion.

If central tenets of religion could be proved and replicated independently, then it is not a religion, but science.