does intellectualism undermine faith? – part I

 
 
well…yeah… maybe… and no, not necessarily…
 
two persons have now asked, so i’ll start trying to put forth my best neophyte answer now… 
the question i think is not so easily answerable.  i mean, on the one extreme, one can adhere to a type of rational dogmatism; and on the other, one can stay in the clouds of utopian [...]