And so, by Tuesday morning, billboards across the state, from churches in the capital city of Charleston to the Country Roads pharmacy in tiny Glen Daniel, said the same thing: “Pray for our miners”.

因此，在周二之前，全州的宣传牌子，无论是在该州首府城市查尔斯顿的教堂，还是在小城市Glen Daniel的乡村医院，都写着同样的东西“为矿工们祈祷”。

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Something called "education" is given to everybody, usually by the state, but sometimes by the churches.

所谓教育，已是人人有份，主持者通常是国家，教会也时而担当此任。

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Right now, ATF is searching every inch of the two largest black churches in the state.

现在酒烟火器爆破物品局(atf)正在搜索州内最大两所黑人教堂的每个角落。

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The most dominant buildings are not churches; they are state buildings.

这里占统治地位的建筑并不是那些教堂,而是那些政府建筑

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Rather as in the economic sphere competing private companies tend to produce wealth and activity, whereas monopoly firms have the opposite effect, so in the religious sphere competing sects generate a ferment of activity and increased levels of belief, whereas state churches produce indifference.

ECONOMIST: Therapy of the masses

State controlled churches frequently exploited this latent power for evil.

FORBES: Separation Of Church And State Limits Neither Churches Nor States

The centre-right government of Viktor Orban, which would love a pre-electoral seal of conservative approval from them, has introduced new religious holidays and promised new state money for churches.

ECONOMIST: Hungary