He shook his head. "No, but they told everyone the polite, white lies, because the lies were what they wanted to hear. After all, if you are toiling all week, twelve hours or more a day, just to feed yourself, let alone your family, wouldn't it be nice to know that 'pray to this god, and you get to go to a 'paradise' where you never hunger, fear getting killed by bandits, or similar ever again when you die?'"