Do religion and faith create anti-intellectuallism?

Religion can promote anti-intellectualism when people take their religion too seriously - they are the sort of people who believe in creationism and refuse to listen to evidence they disagree with about evolution because they've already decided that they believe creationism is true based on their own biases - confirmation bias.

You mean people who are practising religious people?

Not exactly. There are people who are religious but accept things like genesis as religion, not something that actually happened. Especially here in the UK. Young Earth creationists tend to be an American thing.

It is for similar reasons that religious people don't stone gay people to death, execute the victims of rape or ban the growing of 2 different crops in the same field - historical context is important.

I have been reading about anti-intellectualism as of late and I am wondering whether religious institutions, holy scriptures and faith create it.

Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science, as impractical and contemptible

Christians and Muslims, for example, often defend their holy books as inherent, unquestionable and timeless truths that cannot be disputed because they are 'the word of God'. Empiricism becomes irrelevant because, in the eyes of a devout religious believer, it's subordinate to God. Everything is subordinate to God, and as inferior humans we should just accept that and give thanks to God.

Empiricism:
the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.

The Enlightenment of the 18th Century obviously went a long way to countering anti-intellectualism, but it doesn't change the issue that religious scripture and those who follow it may be avid promoters of anti-intellectualism by using their faith in a god and scripture to answer all problems.

I picked this quote from the Bible because it demonstrates the common belief that God 'causes all things to work... according to His purpose'. This kind of claim, which is supported by nothing empirical, is a key example in how religion, namely Christianity, promotes the idea that only the word of God is valid. Anything that humans discover is irrelevant because God is the creator and designer of all, and everything was within His plan.

So, I pose the question: are religion and faith both prominent in creating anti-intellectualism? If holy scripture is timeless, as it is usually claimed to be, then religion must be judged throughout time rather than just how we view it in the present.

This quote describes monotheism nicely - "the source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. The pertinacity with which he clings to blind opinions imbibed in his infancy, which interweave themselves with his existence, the consequent prejudice that warps his mind, that prevents its expansion, that renders him the slave of fiction, appears to doom him to continual error."

- Baron d'Holbach

he must have had a weird upbringing and ended up blaming religion for it..

Do you even understand any of it, or is your brain so severely damaged that you need to conjure up some bull**** explanation to cover up for your mental deficiency?