Intellectual Faith???

In response to my post regarding faith and God, another classmate wrote, “I agree with your observations and tend to think that an intellectual has to have faith…”

To which I responded, “Just to be clear, I do not think faith is an intellectual trait. If an intellectual were to rely on faith, they would never question, reflect, assess, etc. the current environment of the established doctrine. They would take it on faith that the current practices are correct.”