"For all your vaunted education you fail to understand that the way you misinterpret that story does elevate the intellectual over others." I have clarified TWICE by now that this is not what I am doing. At this point I'm led to think your intentionally be dishonest by putting words in my mouth. I said the practical and contemplative are of EQUAL importance to the church.  

You have also tried to turn me into an academic elitist, even though I have not expressed such a view. Academic philosophers are teachers. Teachers do not tell you what is right, they open you up to the question and aid in your journey for an answer. There is a modern myth that all the mind just comes ready for thinking as though the mind is a computer. We are all thus identical machines that if given the same input will expunge the same output. This is simply not true. In truth, there are many people, even brilliant people, who never learn to think critically....