The Christian Church might have stepped into the breach and imposed obedience and uniformity, because before terribly long, all of the West had been Christianized.

这时基督教试图接管国家,宣扬服从和统一的思想,因为很早以前,基督教在西方就根深蒂固了

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Chinese parents who rock the Tiger Mother style still cling to the remnants of the Old World by expecting obedience above all else and stifling true creativity in favor of tried and true benchmarks of success: Perfect grades, best test scores, admission into top colleges.

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For Milton, all value and all good action depend on obedience to the will of God.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism

Milton also manifestly does acknowledge that there are other sources of value than obedience to an all-knowing deity.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism