Sure a few people knew. But the context is the general population following the herd based solely on what the crowd thinks.
The crowd believe gay marriage is good, ergo it must be the truth.
The crowd believes in global warming so it must be the truth.
The crowd believes the earth was flat...except it isnt. Likewise for many ‘crowdsourced’ and self perpetuating bits of ‘fact’. The whole self-fulfilling prophecy thing. That’s all I’m getting at and IMO the point of the quote.
I’m not criticizing you, Norm. And as I said, I got the point of the quote. My only point is that a lot of people believe silly things like “everyone” 500 years ago thought the world was flat. And what bothers me is part of the reason why people believe these things: it is another way that liberals discredit Christianity (Ooh, look what people believed when Christianity reigned).
A lot of what people believe about the Middle Ages simply isn’t true.