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Da debble is in 'em!
....they didn't start printing anything for years after the press was invented,
Oh?
That seems; shall I say; strange.
The VAST majority of the people coulddn't read mostly because they had nothing to read.
Then they should have been JEWISH; not Catholic.
The Jews had no problem, it seems, in having their people literate.
why would that be strange...how many phone calls do you suppose were made in the 25 years following the invention of the telephone??
No, the majority of the Jewish people at that time were not literate..if, somehow they had learned to read, they had nothing in their possession to read...there were no newspapers, periodicals, publishers clearing house hadn't even been thought of yet. Please explain to me what they read and where did they get it.