Fawn Brodie delved into anti-Mormon literature...

[Robin]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

She didn't reject Mormonism because of the anti-Mormon books. Brodie characterized them as "scurrilous." You yourself said something to the effect that Mormonism demands such complete suspension of the intellect that no one should reject it based upon discovery of the "Book of Abraham" scrolls alone.

Faith is the opposite of REASON/LOGIC, not 'the intellect.'

Faith will always reduce down to some fundamental dogma that exists outside of universal human experience. That doesn't make it anti-intellectual... it just means that religious genius and faith-based intellectual work are more closely related to poetry and painting than they are to science.