It only works if the rank and file are illiterate and unable to read and reason for themselves. The Soviet education system was the ‘kiss of death’ for the system. That’s one of the reasons that the Church still uses Latin and then stopped performing the liturgy in Latin – people were catching on.

Woman are the core of any religion. Once you start losing the confidence of women, it is only a matter of time. Large organizations are rarely destroyed, they usually commit ‘suicide’.