The one thing I've noticed about evangelism is that those that do it seem to have to convince other people because they may not believe it really themselves.

Aethism is experiential. Can't be proven either. I don't think aethiests are ignorant because they operate on faith. Nor are devout religious people.

What is ignorant is extremism taken without questioning it. There can be what Eric Fromm calls "Idiot Savants". They may know how to hi-jack efficiently, persuade fanatical followers, ban music and art and bring an airliner down with box cutters. They may be able to hide behind the visage of a sultan. Whitehead says, "Some reason with the foxes and others with the gods."

Frank