Although Patrick Michael from the Cato Institute says religious leaders and movies have only a short lived influence, World Watch disagrees.

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So Judah, the Southern Kingdom, is a tribute-paying vassal state to the Assyrian overlord. And of course there's a great deal of Assyrian cultural influence and religious influence in Judah as a result.

那么犹大，南部王国，是纳贡者-向亚述统治者,上交贡赋理所应当的，他们受到了许多亚述,文化和宗教影响。

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As to his son, his son was more under the influence of these traditional religious influences.

而说到彼得的儿子,就是一个深受传统宗教影响的人

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We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

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