Nice rant on anti-intellectualism, but I hardly fall into that category.  Intellect is a very fine thing.  Mental masturbation, however, is useless and much of what is bandied about by theologians falls in that category.  Your misuse of the Mary/Martha story, for example.  For all your vaunted education you fail to understand that the way you misinterpret that story does elevate the intellectual over others.  Fortunately, your interpretation is merely a bit of sophistry and an excellent example of why many disparage the ivory tower.  Are you  positing that the people need you and "academic elites" to tell us what is right?  Granted, in realms like science that makes sense, but theology and philosophy, well, really, what is right in those fields?  Philosophers argue until they die, then their disciples argue about what they said.  Main result, employment for no product.  Nothing you have written here indicates you have any superior insight into what is right.