(November 2, 2016 at 3:28 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 3:24 pm)pocaracas Wrote: It wouldn't take much to make those kids believe in what they were being told... Rural Portugal was pretty much pastoral - no sophistication of any kind... Very religious to begin with, so, by default, gullible.
That's why I even draw the skeptics into question. I guess it would have been hard to find any skeptic in rural Portugal at that time. Or any rural part of Europe for that matter.
So do I. I mean who would go? If say Drich 'prophesised' on here that something was going to happen at a certain time and place, what right-thinking athiest would actually go there just in case or just to prove him wrong? The more likely response would be 'yeah, whatever'.
