But the Church, in fact, never gained enough power to control the state.

但是,事实证明,宗教的影响力还不足以控制一个国家

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But one argument that can be made is that things things were so terrible and so out of control in the earlier period that the strengthening of the state is something that people saw as beneficial.

然而有这样一个观点,在动荡不定的战争年代,一个极权国家是有利于国家的发展的

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