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Yes because national crises causes stress and people to sway their opinion.
Figurative is something that shouldn't be taking literally. For example, when you say "I have a ton of homework" you don't really mean you have 2000 pounds of homework.
The reason was that the Byzantine sovereign prohibited the utilization of symbols worshipful admiration and the roman catholic pope's scorn this demonstration later the Byzantine heads turned around their stand permitting symbols, yet the harm between the places of worship was done; caused break. The Iconoclast debate of the eighth and ninth hundreds of years and the eleventh century Christian split between the houses of worship of Constantinople and Rome.