Checking out the community. I am finding it interesting that ideas are being discussed rationally. A breath of fresh air.

Emotions are the fuel. To divest facts and reason of emotion is to become apathetic. To divest emotion from facts and reason is to be tossed about with every wind of doctrine. Such divestments would be like emptying the gas from your car and attempting to swim to town in it. The car no longer runs and you'll never make it to town. In fact, the gas might ignite you into a blaze of flames.

However, if you leave the gas in your car and it is in good mechanical condition, you will make it to town. Similarly, if you approach life with reason and facts, learning the truth can and should ignite your emotions (the starter in your car works), which in turn will provide the emotional fuel you will need to act upon the facts successfully. That is, your facts and logic are in good mechanical condition. Therefore, your emotions (gasoline) should fuel you to act upon the conclusions your mechanically sound reason arrived at.

There are emotions and there are motivations. Motivation to action can be emotional--enmity with others, wrath, envy. lust, gluttony, greed, sloth---and these motivations generally are emotional, and the intent of the action is sin against others or, indirectly, against ourselves..

Motivations can also be for good--Prudence (preparing self or family for future survival), Justice (giving the just payment or penalty--unless Mercy is due), Temperance, and Fortitude--these are the Cardinal virtues and are seldom seen primarily as emotional.

The emotion of fear can lead to sin or virtue, depending on how the individual decides to act.
Love of others usually is a motivation to act with virtue--but in can also be lust or envy

Certainly we should attempt to analyze our emotions--and be wary if we think those emotions are brought on by the mentioned sins.

You can't reason with emotion alone. Emotions are subjective and fickle. Although emotional response may be indicative, sound judgment is reasoned by holding to objective principles.

Your view seems similar to mine: rejecting your emotions entirely is a rejection of your humanity. Ultimately, your emotions and logical thinking should be pointing in the same direction. When they are not, it's a sign that you need more reflection or meditation. There is only one truth, and therefore authentic human emotions and authentic logic must both point at the same truth.

Disclaimer: My view on this matter is part of my overall Christian worldview.

Without emotion, there is no point. Everything we do in life spawns from or sparks emotion. To try and discount it is destructive, IMHO.

However, logic has to balance with emotion and there are some things that are primarily done with logic and other things that are primarily emotion.

I agree we need emotions. We are emotional creatures. What we also need is reason. We need a combination of emotion through the lens of reasoned experience. Science and intuition working together to move us forward. Anything in one extreme or the other tends to be a bad idea. Personally, I try to live in the middle. I think thats where most of us are found.

There is just one small problem with thoroughly reasoned emotion however. Because emotions are just that...emotions, they ebb and flow with changing circumstances, often the revelation of more facts and truth. Emotions are important in as much as they are invoked by true events and facts. Emotions help to concretize facts and events so long as all evidence is present and vetted. Otherwise, getting worked up over some dangling abstraction or agenda-fitting string of characters, is a waste of emotion. To be sure, apply the Judge Judy test, "if it doesn't make sense, its not true". Indeed there are certain situations and events that contain all of the information that you need in one swoop...others require considering the good, the bad, and the ugly...then get mad, or glad. But it is probably not a good idea to pull "reasoned emotions" out of the air.