You see, people usually respond; but they never answer.
I believe it was Aristotle who abhorred those who claimed to have a special connection with the Almighty and would grant absolution for a consideration. There's a lot of money in every church, if you sell the right thing. Religions now sell forgiveness and redemption for violating the ten suggestions; they don't sell virtue. There's lots of buyers.
Faith is like a well educated, erudite Jain polymath in the 6th century AD leaving the comfort of his skyclad existence and grabbing a linen sheet and a begging bowl and taking up the life of a missionary to the ends of the Earth.
Eventually, according to those who study such matters, a number of such missionaries should have ended up in Dark Ages Scotland.
And, in fact, we have records of holy men dressed only in a coarse wrap preaching Ahemsa ~ total non violence and forgiveness ~ we even have the sermons delivered by some of them.
Without them the early Dark Age would have been particularly brutal and not just nasty.