Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161
“By the time the Church had gained sufficient power to exercise a controlling influence, the process of social decay”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 146
Context: Christianity was rising when the ancient world was breaking down. By the time the Church had gained sufficient power to exercise a controlling influence, the process of social decay, like the breakdown of a physical organism in a wasting disease, was beyond remedy.
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Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161

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“By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.”
Friday Sermon at Tehran University by Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani. http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/60.htm May 2004.
Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161