In the world of the totalitarian, there is no concept of “accept” or “believe.”. There is only “understand”.
Any opposition can only come from a failure to “understand”—never from an opposing belief.
I’ve found the same when talking with someone about what the fossil record “says”.
They don’t seem to understand that there could be more than their assumed interpretation of the SAME EVIDENCE, and they don’t see that they are using the assumption of what they are trying to prove to prove what they are assuming is true.