People lied then as much as people lie now. It’s human nature. People of every age try to justify their beliefs. It’s human nature. I think that human nature is the same now as it was 10,000 years ago, but I can’t prove it...it is just what my (hopefully honest) reading of history is. I could be wrong, I certainly have been in the past. But there you have it.
If they lied as much then as now, then they also told the truth as much then as now.
Yeah, they even had wireless phones back then.