What silly logic. Why assume that the people or the priests in medieval times 'believed' with any less doubt than we have today? Humans haven't gotten any sma

What silly logic. Why assume that the people or the priests in medieval times 'believed' with any less doubt than we have today? Humans haven't gotten any smarter since then. If the ordeal 'proved' the defendant guilty, all it would take is for one person to know for a fact that a defendant was not guilty to create doubt in the system. Iterate this a few times and the absolute belief required for this approach to work would quickly disintegrate across the whole village. The whole system of ordeals seems like a charade to legitimize what amounted to arbitrary judgments in light of insufficient evidence. Kind of like the system we have today, come to think of it.