Well said annalex. I was about to write something very similar only adding that my literacy in no way impedes my love, and usage of icons in my spiritual life.
Indeed. I, too, am literate.
It is a false dichotomy. I think that in AD 1500-2000 our civilization had an illness: a disbalance of the analytical; its most current symptom is scientism: a belief that science provides a sum total of knowledge and superstition alone is beyond. But the faith survived: the Catholic Church, for sure, is doing fine, if you look at the big picture.