How much of the whole fetishizing over ultimate truth in cults and other forms comes down to nothing more than "I had an experience in this particular way, so it must be the True Way(tm)"?
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I think a lot of belief is based on experience. I got into an ontological discussion once with a theoretical physicist.
We spent a few hours working backward and eventually found that my experiences (using psychedelics) provided me with a basis for belief that diverged from his.
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The key insight was that sensory experience is fallable to an extent and that even ontological truth is determined by collective agreement re: sensory phenomena.
The physicist I think didn't believe in that layer of collective agreement, and saw truth as a binary "is or is not".
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Did you ask them if they thought physics was ontologically complete?
The response would be... interesting.
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I imagine they'd cite their atheist status as a response when I'd inevitably have to frame it as "do you think real things exist but whose existence physics cannot determine?"