Can't think of a definition of 'evil' that would put St Paul into THAT category. But 'crazy' seems more feasible.
Maybe 'crazy' like someone who cryogenically preserves their cadaver in the expectation of a future technological resuscitation. Or maybe 'crazy' like someone who claims to have found-- or almost discovered-- the 'singularity' of all reality. Or maybe crazy like someone who claims to have discovered the/ a 'fountain of youth.' Or maybe 'crazy' like those who believe that this seemingly endless cycle of life and death spontaneously emerged from nothing and will return to nothing taking them back into the old nothing-- or maybe they'll spontaneously emerge into some new unimaginable nothing that could only be produced by eons of time. Or maybe 'crazy' like those who believe that the inanimate cosmos is eternal and all anima will finally evolve into something equally as persistent.
Or maybe 'crazy' like that other famous Anglican of the previous generation who tried to prevent the educational system from making "the 'trousered ape' and the 'urban blockhead' [who] really hold that the ordinary human feelings about the past or animals or large waterfalls are contrary to reason and contemptible and ought to be eradicated."