26th January 2017, 2:52 PM
That one seems adequately explained as a change in culture, since those old people generally were brought up religious rather than being convinced of it late in life.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)