The church lost tool of influence. Or another way to look at it is that without

The church lost tool of influence. Or another way to look at it is that without our present failure, the church had no EVIDENCE necessary to instruct it to reform. So, maybe, this is just the normal cycle of reform: it takes a century of struggle to produce demand for reformers. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1361706913994575874