Today, Christian recordings, videos and books are part of a multibillion-dollar religious retailing industry.
It was already suffering from the botched succession of Mr. Schuller, one too many vanity building projects and changes in the religious broadcasting industry.
Meanwhile, changes in the religious broadcasting industry and overly ambitious building at the campus combined with the economic downturn to land the church in severe financial trouble.
The Home Office plans to ask religious faiths, industry representatives and the public for their opinions on updating the laws, some of which are more than 200 years old.
The country's strengths, it adds, are its "strong and growing" religious tourism industry and, with some understatement perhaps, "the financial resources" for infrastructure investments.
But by the time his organization filed for bankruptcy protection, the church had become overburdened by debt from vanity building projects, changes in the religious broadcasting industry and a deep rift in the church leadership over the line of succession.
This is just one segment of the religious publishing industry in just one wing of one of the world religions; the mind boggles at the extent of forests being felled for purveyance of religious doctrine, opinion, exhortation and polemic in every shade, nuance and type.
The new 485-metre-high Mecca clocktower would bear a remarkable resemblance to Big Ben, were it not for the gold crescent and Arabic calligraphy adorning it, and represents a new era for Mecca, symbolising the dizzying vision and growth of the religious tourism industry in Saudi Arabia.
This numbness can be co-opted by extremists of any sort -- politicians, religious zealots, industry leaders or lobbyists -- who do their best business operating in the shadowy climate of fear.
As for what the international religious propaganda industry with its hundreds of millions of dollars puts into saying about Hinduism on social media and You Tube videos, it is another deep pit altogether.
