For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
That by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men ...  There is a charge in this that the slanders of the Christians were grounded in the ignorance and foolishness of their accusers; but there is a definite culpability both in such ignorance and in such foolishness.  "In the Bible, `foolish' is often used in the sense of evil-disposed or wicked."[40] Also, the kind of ignorance that repeats a vicious slander without checking the truth of it is likewise reprehensible.