bart-leby
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I have just read an article about the Islamic State and have problems with this sentence:
For so long, progress and the decline of faith – what enlightened types prefer to call “superstition” – were thought to be symbiotic if not synonymous. As the world advanced, as more of its people got running water, TV and smartphones, surely the old, primitive beliefs would fade.
I am not able to comprehand the part "more of its people got running water". Literal meaning does not make any sense to me in the context. Is it a sort of idiomatic structure? Thank you.
For so long, progress and the decline of faith – what enlightened types prefer to call “superstition” – were thought to be symbiotic if not synonymous. As the world advanced, as more of its people got running water, TV and smartphones, surely the old, primitive beliefs would fade.
I am not able to comprehand the part "more of its people got running water". Literal meaning does not make any sense to me in the context. Is it a sort of idiomatic structure? Thank you.