Um. . . I hate to do this, but as a pagan I'l mildly (only mildly) offended by that. A lot of the people of whatever belief they have that I know are the variety that want to understand others points of view. They're not as small a group as you may think. We just tend to keep ourselves to ourselves because we have been bombarded with anti us propaganda so much that we just don't want to open our mouths for fear of being called hethens or something else terribly silly.

I do see what you're trying to get at however (Hence the mildly part) And yes, when faced with religon most people will defend their beliefs to the death. This doesn't mean they're ingnorant, it just means they are vehament.