We were given the gift of reason to use it. It seems unreasonable to me, however, to use reason to argue against faith; for faith is indispensable, essential to what it means to be fully human, to human living and thinking.
Prometheus' "revolt" can be understood as a revolt against the "intramundane gods" -- i.e., the Olympians. Yet as far back as Homer, and from thence through Hesoid, Parmenides, and Plato human beings have understood that the Olympians were themselves creatures, albeit immortal ones. Which means there had to be a god "Beyond" them, for "creature" presupposes "creator."
I like to think that Prometheus was not asserting his "rights" against this Unknown God of the Beyond (the tetragrammatical G-d of the Jews, the "I Am That Am"), just against another order in nature, albeit one of "superior" status relative to man -- which order happened to be jealous of their own prerogatives. And which order, Plato thought, was in his time perishing out of human consciousness; although the Unknown God of the Beyond everlastingly IS....
Yet it seems to me the scriptures themselves suggest that man can be "assertive" vis-a-vis the God "beyond" creation; for they tell us that if we knock, it shall be opened unto us; if we seek, we shall find; if we ask, it shall be given unto us.
But this is the heart of faith -- that we can speak to God and have Him hear us, and help us. I know that He can and does. And I am certainly not alone in this belief which, if anything, is supported by experience, and mediated by reason.
Your essay is so lovely, general_re. Thank you for writing it!