Back in 1878, Roman Catholic prelate John Henry Newman wrote: “Confiding then in the power of Christianity to resist the infection of evil, and to transmute the very instruments and appendages of demon - worship to an evangelical use,... the rulers of the Church from early times were prepared, should the occasion arise, to adopt, or imitate, or sanction the existing rites and customs of the populace, as well as the philosophy of the educated class. ”
حکمرانان کلیسا از زمانهای پیشین آماده شده بودند تا فرصتی برای پذیرفتن ،‏ تقلید کردن ،‏ یا تصدیق آیین‌ها و رسوم موجود در عوام و همچنین فلسفهٔ طبقهٔ تحصیل کرده ،‏ به وجود آید .‏ »