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You are talking of a time when the average Christian could not even read the Bible he believed in, and only knew what he was told,and was easily led. A time when the only one's who really knew what was written there were those who had been highly educated, that being a very limited few. When muslim hords were trying to invade Europe, and the need to push them back

This is the reason for the reformation. When the common man was able to read the Bible for himself it led to great changes in Christianity.

Maybe they couldn't read the bible, but the priests could, and it was their responsibility to teach them, lead them, and exhort. In the beginning Christians didn't do those things I don't believe. Things deteriorated as the gospel spread. I'm not sure why.

Things were too different then and the answers are more complex and people . . . I don't want to call them ignorant but they probably were about lots of things we know more about today.

Normally in those times people didn't choose their wives/husbands and there were no divorces. It was a social custom. We don't do that any more but we aren't particularly better off for it. Child abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction are epidemic and the only reason there isn't more of it is because of civil laws. Perpetrators know they will have to do jail time. Most of those individuals don't have a spiritual and church life. They are on the fringes of society.

Sure got a lot of people mad at me on this thread.