The evangelical belief that seems to die the hardest in deconstructionists and deconverts is that the most important thing is to know and believe the right things. Correct behavior and ethics are either secondary/auxiliary or will follow naturally from right thinking.

It seems very hard for us to shake the belief that knowledge will save us. Everywhere I look I see people explaining knowledge about how wearing a mask saves others and not yourself, that even if you don't feel sick you can get others sick, etc., etc. etc.

What if the problem isn't a lack of knowledge? What if people know all those things, but just don't really care? You can be the most informed person in the world, but it really doesn't matter at all if you're not a virtuous person.

This seems to derive pretty obviously from the "saved by faith" idea where "faith" is understood to mean "knowing the right things about God." "God" is replaced with something else, like "different God," "science," "post-WWII International order," whatever,

and, just as in the "saved by faith" construction, the question of how this leads to ethical behavior or holds people accountable for their actions is often "it just does, okay?!"