“They are, by nature, iconoclasts. They want to question and sometimes to disrupt the status quo.”
I think the lack of knowledge of the “other side” leads both sides into stereotyping the other. Most profs at so-called liberal schools are not incendiary, nor iconoclasts. Rather, they’re scholars in their own interest areas, more concerned with the pursuit, analysis, and defense of knowledge. (C’mon, they spend years developing their scholarly creds.) That’s an organic pursuit, not faith based (though, of course, we all have principles we accept as true.)
For many, there is no one ultimate source of authority, not in the way the Bible speaks to Christians or other works to other faiths.