Cultural Idolatry

"Come Out Of Her My People"

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

Thirty five years ago, when I was still of our country's mainstream culture, I began to question whether it was justifiable for myself as well as other mainstream American Catholics to continue to remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture. This questioning came to my mind because I could see that the number of discrepancies between the Catholic faith and our country's mainstream culture had increased to an amount that made me think that maybe I could no longer continue to remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture and still be a good Catholic.

At the time, I came to believe that is was my responsibility to start thinking about revolting against our country's mainstream culture, by becoming a counter cultural Catholic. And then, a few years later, I became aware that a few more discrepancies between my Catholic faith and our country's mainstream culture had become manifest. And then several years later, because of new scientific discoveries I became aware that there had been more discrepancies between my Catholic faith and our country's mainstream culture than I had originally thought existed. It was at that time that I became aware that the number of new and newly discovered discrepancies had accumulated to a level that I knew I could no long remain basically conformed to our country's mainstream culture and remain a good Catholic. Therefore, I repented and became a counter cultural Catholic.

It was not long after I started attempting to influence other cultural mainstream American Catholics to repent and become counter-cultural Catholics, that I discovered that there was a serious problem hindering the success of this ministry of mine.

I, at the time, became aware that this serious problem was do to the fact that they were PSYCHOLOGICALLY ADDICTED to living lifestyles that were basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture. At the time, I also realized that, for many of these cultural mainstream "Catholics", this psychological addiction of theirs began over thirty years ago, and had continued up to this present day; and that, therefore, they had been psychologically incapable of becoming aware of the gradual accumulation of many of these new discrepancies. Or, in other words, I came to the conclusion that they were psychologically addicted to the practice of cultural mainstream idolatry wherein they were blindly staying in conformity to cultural mainstream lifestyles and were therefore in radical DENIAL of the existence of many of these new discrepancies.

I now believe that I know the reason why they are psychologically incapable (without a lot of help from God) of realizing the predicament that they are in, and why they are also psychologically incapable (without a lot of help from God) of realizing that it is necessary for themselves to go through a RADICAL CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION in order to do the will of God.

And I believe that in order for God to help them out of their CULTURAL IDOLATROUS PREDICAMENT, it became necessary for Him to raise up a prophet, such as myself, who could help them to both see the predicament that they are in, as well as to help them to understand what they need to do to get themselves out of their cultural idolatrous lifestyles, and into a counter-cultural expression of the Christian and Catholic faith. I will therefore attempt, by this prophetic writing ministry of mine, to accomplish this goal.

When seeking to discover why 73% of our country's "Catholics" do not believe in an essential Catholic doctrine, as a survey recently revealed, it became evident to me that the cause of this major heretical problem was do to the fact that most of our country's Catholics practice CULTURAL MAINSTREAM IDOLATRY, wherein they do not use individual discernment...and, therefore, blindly go in the way of the cultural majority. And I believe that the reason why they are practicing cultural idolatry is because, for many years, an essential Christian and Catholic principle has not been taught from Catholic Church pulpits throughout America. Within the following pages of this booklet, I will explain, in detail, what this, neglected to be taught, essential Christian and Catholic principle is.

Our country's Catholic Bishops are searching to find out why 73% of our country's "Catholics" believe that when the bread and wine are consecrated during Mass, they are not miraculously turned into the body and blood of Jesus, when the Church has taught them that they are. I believe that the reason why the majority of our country's "Catholics" do not believe in this essential Catholic doctrine is because they believe that they should be in agreement with the majority of their fellow American Christians, and the majority of their fellow American Christians do not believe in this essential Catholic doctrine.

A minority of our country's Catholics believe in all of the essential doctrines of the Catholic Church, including the doctrine wherein it is taught that Catholic ministers can consecrate the bread and wine, but Protestant ministers can not (efficiently) consecrate the bread and wine. Or, in other words, when Catholic ministers consecrate it, it miraculously turns into the body and blood of Jesus, but when Protestant ministers "consecrate" it, it is not miraculously turned into the body and blood of Jesus. But the majority of our country's "Catholics" do not believe in this essential Catholic doctrine. And they do not believe in it because they have chosen to believe like the majority of America's mainstream-denominational Christians. And the majority of our country's mainstream denominational Christians believe that it is not the way of "good" patriotic cultural mainstream Americans to believe in such a "bigoted" and "divisive" doctrine.

Most Protestants and Catholics believe in mainstream denominational Christianity. However, the majority of our country's Catholics have chosen not to believe in this essential doctrine of their church; and did so, because they wanted to enable themselves to believe even more so in mainstream denominational "Christianity"; and, therefore, be in conformity with the majority of our country's mainstream denominational "Christians". Therefore, I believe that because they do not believe in this essential Catholic doctrine; and are not believing in it, because they have chosen to make blindly going in the way of the majority the guiding principle of their lives, that this is the reason why they are not only not practicing the Catholic faith, but not practicing the Christian faith as well.

The vast majority of our country's Catholics leave out way too much individual discernment in their decision making processes. Therefore, they blindly trust that the cultural mainstream way is the right way. And because they blindly trust in the cultural majority's way, they, therefore, have chosen to make the principle of blindly going in the way of the majority the guiding principle of their lives. And in doing so, they have consistently avoided responsible Christian discernment when it comes to evaluating the many cultural-minority stances on issues, including the cultural- minority stance associated with the Eucharist. Therefore, they have also eliminated the possibility of giving their support to cultural-minority stances on issues. And this means that they have eliminated the possibility of hearing Jesus calling them to become counter-cultural Catholics.

Most of these so-called "Catholics" are good willed people who are unaware of their cultural idolatrous lifestyles. So, therefore, if they were to die in this state of cultural idolatrous ignorance, I believe that God would not judge them to Hell. There is a word in the scriptures that sometimes means Hell, and that word is "destruction". If this word were to be used to describe where these multitudes of cultural mainstream idolaters and idolatresses were going to go after they die, it would not mean that they were going to go to hell. Because the hell definition of the word "destruction", in this situation, would not be the right definition. It would have a less judgmental definition. And in the following paragraph, it is in this less judgmental, or purgatorial context, that I use the word destruction.

Jesus said: "Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many go therein, and narrow is the gate and straight is the way that leads to everlasting life and few go therein". Because of our fallen human nature, each and every one of us human beings has a temptation to go blindly in the "broad way" of the majority. So, therefore, if a person is not suspicious about the majority's way being the right way, and, therefore, without cautious personal discernment enters into the way of the majority, wrongly believing that it's the safe way to go, then that person has entered into the "broad way" of the majority. And many cultural-mainstream "Catholics" go blindly in the "broad way" of the majority. They do so, because they believe that it is not necessary for themselves to use personal discernment to determine for themselves if they can justifiably go basically in the way of the cultural majority. They believe that, all they have to do, is trust in the discernment of our country's Catholic bishops when it comes to this issue. But our country's (possibly, compromising/majority pleasing) Catholic bishops are fallible when it comes to their ability to make a correct judgment about this issue. And they're even more likely to make a mistake in judgment about this issue if they do not have a sufficient number of discerning laymen to help them make a correct judgment. So, therefore, it's the responsibility of each and every one of our country's cultural mainstream Catholics to periodically exercise individual discernment and determine for themselves if they can still continue to remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture.

Therefore, if our country's cultural mainstream Catholics do not occasionally exercise individual discernment in respect to this issue, and therefore blindly continue on in the way of the cultural majority, then they have chosen to go in the "broad way" of the majority. And many Catholics have, without any knowledge of any wrongdoing, given into this temptation. Therefore, I believe that the majority of our country's Catholic-churchgoers are going in the "broad way" of the majority, the way that leads to "destruction".

The cultural-mainstream Catholics who do not occasionally take the time to be suspicious about the supposed righteousness of their cultural-mainstream Catholic lifestyles, and then cautiously discern whether they should proceed in the way of our country's Catholic cultural majority or go in the way of any number of existing Catholic cultural minority ways, or establish a cultural minority way, before continuing on in the way of the Catholic cultural majority, have gone through the "wide gate" and are going in the "broad way". This means that Catholics who go blindly in the way of the Catholic cultural majority are headed for "destruction". We can not blindly put our trust in our country's Catholic cultural-majority way. So if that is what you have been doing then you have put yourself in the "broad way". The way that Jesus said leads to "destruction".

An essential Christian and Catholic principle teaches us that if we blindly go in the way of the majority we are headed for "destruction". And if this principle were to be taught from all of our country's Catholic church pulpits the serious cultural-mainstream idolatry problem occurring in our country's Catholic churches could be solved. But because the vast majority of Catholics who regularly attend church services on the weekends have been, for a long time, receiving such a watered down gospel from their church's pulpits, if they were, therefore, to hear this essential principle, with all of it implications, being taught from their church's pulpits most of them would, at least temporarily, stop attending Catholic Church services.

An example of a watered-down gospel homily:
I spoke to my pastor Father Ray Steffes a couple of days prior to a homily of his - a homily that dealt with the subject of the Church's teachings about the Eucharist. I told him, at the time, about a resent article in the Star Tribune, wherein its author stated that our country's Catholic Bishops were trying to find out why "many Catholics" do not believe in an essential Catholic doctrine about the Eucharist. He then told me that he knew that what I was saying was true. However, when he gave his homily about the Eucharist he did not mention a word about this blatant crisis. And he knows that if a Catholic does not believe in an essential church doctrine about the Eucharist they should not receive the Eucharist. And the reason why they should not receive it is because if they were to receive it they would be receiving it unworthily. And he knows that the scriptures say that during the beginning stage of church history some Christians were receiving the Eucharist unworthily and that that was a reason why so many of them were getting sick and even dying. But never- the-less Father Ray Steefes did not mention one word about this truth to his parishioners. And in my opinion, the vast majority of Catholic priests are just like Father Ray Steffes. They choose to not worn their flock about dangerous situations that many of them are in, and they do so because they do not want to present homilies wherein they would have to tell them hard to hear and accept doctrines and principles of the Catholic Church.

A former Governor of Minnesota once said: "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers". Or, in other words, he was saying: The vast majority of our country's churchgoers are weak-minded people who blindly go in the way of the majority. They are "weak-minded" because they have been brainwashed so that they have an inordinate fear of being of any counter cultural group or movement. And because of this situation, they limit themselves in respect to how critical they will allow themselves to be when evaluating our country's culture, for fear that if they did not they might discover that our country's mainstream culture is not even basically compatible with the Christian faith, and upon coming to this conclusion, they would also have to conclude that they could no longer live in basic conformity to our country's mainstream cultural. Therefore they are living in an idolatrous relationship with our country's mainstream culture, and because they are caught up in this form of idolatry they are not even practicing the Christians faith.

A primary reason why so many "Catholics" are psychologically incapable of practicing the Christian religion, is because they have not been taught, over and over again, from the pulpit, that it is wrong for them to believe that they do not have to be open to hear a possible calling from Jesus Christ to come out of our country's mainstream culture and into a minority culture. And because of this situation, they have developed false "Christian" identities wherein they think that they are cultural mainstreamers and Christians, and that these two things are basically one thing, and inseparable. They should, therefore, be taught over and over again from the pulpit that they are Catholic Christians and that being basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture is a variable situation that they are presently experiencing; and that each and every one of them should be spiritually and psychologically prepared to, at any time, come out of our country's mainstream culture, and start participating in a cultural-minority, or counter-cultural, expression of the Christian and Catholic faith.

Examples: A white-man of our country's mainstream-culture may be called to move onto or near a Native American reservation and practice Christianity within Native American spirituality and culture. Or, someone may be called to join a Christian charismatic renewal group whose members live in a communal setting. Or, an extended kinship family and parish may be called to participate in a Christian and Catholic expression of the youth of the 1960s counter-cultural movement...etc.

If a person thinks he or she is a Christian but suffers with a psychological problem wherein he or she has to go in the way of the (cultural) majority ,or, that person is inordinately fearful of being in the minority and is therefore not open to the possibility that he or she may have to suffer persecution because the Lord has called him or her to follow Him within a minority, or counter cultural, expression of the Christian and Catholic faith then that person is not a Christian, but a cultural-mainstream idolater or idolatress.

The majority of our country's citizens have been brainwashed so that they go blindly in the way of the cultural majority. And because they go blindly in the way of the cultural majority they belong to a cultural mainstream denomination; and therefore also believe in their denominations mainstream doctrines, morals, ethics and social justice ministries...etc. Therefore, the essential Christian principle that teaches true Christians that Jesus could, at any time, call them into a cultural-minority expression of Christianity. A calling that they would necessarily, under the stress of a grave sin, be obliged to adhere to, does not have anything to do with the majority of our country's so-called "Christians". It does not fit into their cultural-mainstream idolatrous lifestyles, wherein they go blindly in the way of the cultural majority. And this idolatrous principle is the guiding principle of their lives. Therefore they are cultural-mainstream idolaters and idolatresses and not Christians.

In respect the cultural majority followers who are so-called "Catholics", these church-going cultural majority-followers came to believe in a mainstream denomination (the Catholic denomination) by following a principle wherein wherein they have radically and consistently neglected to exercise individual discernment; and, therefore, have also chosen, over and over again, in respect to new social justice issues, theology, morals, ethics...etc, to blindly believe in what the Catholic cultural majority believes. They do not have to be concerned if maybe the way of a Catholic cultural-minority movement, or, the way of a Catholic counter-cultural prophet, is the right way, for them the way of the Catholic cultural majority is always the "right" way.

How majority followers find their way into a mainstream denomination:
The majority of our country's citizens are living in basic conformity to our country's mainstream culture. And the majority of people within our country's mainstream culture are "Christians". Therefore, those Americans who blindly go in the way of the majority have also chosen to be "Christians". And the majority of our country's "Christians" are of a mainstream denomination; so, therefore, those Americans who blindly go in the way of the majority have also chosen to be of a mainstream denomination. And because the majority of people who are of a mainstream denomination are people who blindly go in the way of the majority they therefore have chosen to be of their denomination's mainstream theology, spirituality, morals, ethics, social justice ministries...etc.. Therefore, the great multitudes of Americans who have made blindly going in the way of the majority the guiding principle of their lives can be found flowing into mainstream denominational "Christian" churches on Sundays. Note: People who blindly go in the way of the majority, go that way in order to receive "strength" in numbers, avoid persecution, receive a lot of approval and acceptance from most people living in their nation.

The majority of our country's "Catholics" believe in most of the Catholic Church's essential doctrines. But a majority of American Catholics do not believe in the Catholic Church's essential doctrine about the Eucharist. And the reason they do not believe in it is because they need to be in agreement with the majority of our country's mainline denominational "Christians" when it comes to this theological doctrine.

Americans who blindly go in the way of the majority are people who believe in being in basic conformity to our country's mainstream culture, and because they go blindly in the way of the majority they profess that they are "Christians", and the majority of these self acclaimed "Christians" attend services at a mainline denominational church on weekends. Or, in other words, they believe in being in agreement with the majority of their fellow Americans when is comes to their stances on religion and social justice issues. And they do not allow themselves to think outside of the majority follower's idolatrous box. And that's why there are so many health epidemics and social atrocities occurring in our country.

Because these - blindly following the majority - so-called "Christians" radically neglect personal discernment when it comes to judging whether cultural minority stances on social justice issues are right or wrong - cultural minority stances on social justice issues wherein a number of discrepancies between the Christian faith and our country's mainstream culture are expressed - they, therefore, are incapable of discovering truths about our country's mainstream culture that they would otherwise have excess to. And because they neglect to follow this - "exercise personal discernment" - essential Christian principle, they, therefore, are incapable of discovering discrepancies that God wants them to find and expose. So, therefore, they are (obviously) incapable of helping Christian cultural-minority groups to solve these social injustice discrepancy problems. The majority of these - blindly going in the way of the culture majority - so-called "Christians" do not even know about these imagined or real social injustice discrepancy problems - the discrepancies problems that Christian cultural-minority people believe in. And they are unaware of these imagined or real discrepancies because of their radical neglect of personal discernment when it comes to taking stands on a number of social justice issues. And even if they were to exercise a little individual discernment and discover that the cultural-minority people were right on a few social justice issues. They would never the less not help them to solve these problems, because if they did, they would be moving out of the majority follower's idolatrous box.

I hear them saying, over and over again: "Do not think that you can get a movement going that will put an end to the social injustices that you are talking about - social injustices that are discrepancies between our faith and our country's mainstream cultural." They say this because they know that both they and their peers will not help. And they know this because both themselves, and their cultural mainstream peers, have to stay in conformity with the majority.

If they were to break out of their majority following idolatrous box they would then be able to join, or even take leadership positions in, (presently unpopular) social justice movements. And in doing so, enable themselves to help the cultural minority people solve these social injustice discrepancy problems. But these brainwashed majority followers are incapable (without a lot of help from God) of braking out of their majority following idolatrous box.

With the help of traditional Native America mind-altering chemicals many of us youth of the 1960s, were able to brake out of the majority followers idolatrous box and start a social justice movement that is to this present-day actively involved in setting these multitudes of cultural mainstream majority followers free. We know if we can set them free, we can solve many, if not all, of the numerous social injustice atrocities occurring in our country and throughout the world.

Jesus said: "He that does not forsake, father, mother, son or daughter for my sake is not worthy of me." When Jesus made that statement He was also saying: A person that is not willing to be occasionally suspicious about his/her supposed righteousness associated with his/her basic conformity to the cultural majority's positions on issues, and then, if the situation calls for a change, forsake his/her cultural mainstream position in society and become counter cultural he or she is not worthy of me.

If our country's mainline denominational "Christian" ministers actually started preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ most of the people attending church on Sundays would have a difficult time attending church services on Sundays because their sense of "security" in numbers (a psychological need of theirs - a need that has been, for a long time, getting fulfilled during church services) would be shattered.

I believe that Jesus Christ wants these mainline denominational "Christian" ministers to minister homilies that will help wean the cultural mainstream idolaters and idolatresses in their churches (in other words, the vast majority of their parishioners) off their psychological dependency on finding "safety in numbers" so that they can become Christians.

As long as these mainline denominational "Christian" ministers keep teaching blind conformity to the mainstream culture from their pulpits, instead of the gospel of Jesus Christ, they will continue to draw into their churches people that have a psychological need to go in the "broad way". And their churches will continue to fill up every Sunday with mostly cultural mainstream idolaters and idolatresses who believe that they are practicing the Christian religion.

Racial false pride, a terrible sin, historically prevalent in most white Euro-American "Christians", is another major factor that hinders a lot of cultural-mainstream white American church-goers from seeing the wicked racist sins that they are committing as they continue to blindly conform to our country's mainstream culture.

In order to keep, both, church-going cultural idolaters and idolatresses, as well as the white-racist "Christians", coming back to their church services and putting money in the collection baskets, most of our country's "Christian" ministers have to make sure that they do not criticize our country's culture to the degree that the cultural-mainstream idolaters and idolatresses, and white-racist "Christians", get the impression that they're teaching them to question whether they can continue to be basically conformed to our country's mainstream culture. And they do so, because if parishioners get the impression that they're teaching them that they better start thinking critically about our country's mainstream culture, to the degree that they should think about becoming counter-cultural Christians, they know that the majority of their regular churchgoers will find some other church to go to on weekends where the minister or ministers teach that they should basically conformity to the our country's mainstream culture.

An example of a cultural mainstream idolatrous homily:
Pastor Father Ray Steffes of Wahkon, Minnesota's Sacred Heart Catholic Church said during a resent homily that there are discrepancies between our faith and our country's mainstream culture, and that it is important for us to be aware of these discrepancies. When I heard this statement of his, I believed that he was on the right track, but then he added the words: "our country is a wonderful country". And he was not talking about our county's lakes, rivers and mountains...etc. In context, he was saying (despite discrepancies) our county's mainstream culture is still a wonderful culture". In my opinion, this statement of his was made to assure the members of his congregation that it was still alright to be basically in conformity with our country's mainstream culture.

In other words, he was teaching his Sacred Heart Parishioners to follow this principle: If you need to find strength in numbers, and therefore go blindly in the way of our county's mainstream culture, you do not have to be concerned, because I am not saying that you should question whether these few discrepancies should make you think about becoming a counter-cultural Catholic. Or, in otherwords, those of you that follow the principle wherein you basically stay in conformity to the mainstream culture, and use this principle to set a heretical boundary line for yourselves, you're still in a safe place here at Sacred Heart Church.

Therefore, I believe that here again the gospel of Jesus Christ was not being taught from the pulpit, and that what was being taught was cultural mainstream idolatry. Or, in other words, a common heretical principle was being taught. A common heretical principle that the vast majority of our country's Catholic priests teach to the great multitudes of lay Catholics that fill up their churches on weekends.

The vast majority of our country's Catholic priests teach the great multitudes of our country's lay Catholics to believe that: "There is no need for you to be suspicious and then critically examine our country's mainstream culture, to the degree wherein you may have to start questioning whether you can continue to remain basically in conformed to it, just continue to go in the way of the Catholic cultural majority and you will be alright". I believe that this popular heretical principle, is a principle of demon spirits.

Father Ray Steffes should have said: "Look at the discrepancies yourselves, the ones that the Bishops believe in, and the ones that the Holy Spirit has led you to believe in, and determine for yourselves if you can still believe that our county's mainstream culture is a wonderful culture or that "our county is a wonderful county". And in doing so, also determine for yourselves if you can, depending on your evaluation of our county's culture, still stay basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture. I know that at least one of you (Tom Dahlheimer) has already become counter-cultural, and I have no problem with that. And I would also like to say at this time, that I believe that the majority of our country's church-goers set a limit on how many discrepancies between the Christian faith and our country's mainstream culture they are willing to allow themselves to believe in. And that they do this, in order to make sure that the discrepancies that they believe in, do not add up to an amount wherein they would have to begin questioning whether they can still remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture. And they do this, because they are psychologically addicted to living cultural mainstream lifestyles. And I would also like to say that: If I, like the vast majority of mainstream-denominational "Christian" pastors, were to, during church service homilies, make - discrepancy limit setters -, feel secure in their cultural idolatrous belief system I also would be guilty of teaching cultural mainstream idolatry instead of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

If our country's cultural mainstream "Christian" pastors were to suddenly realize that they were guilty of teaching cultural mainstream idolatry, would they then be able to immediately repent and start teaching the truth? Or, in other words, would they (or most of them) be psychologically incapable of teaching the truth because of a psychological problem associated with their habit of ministering homilies that only present truth that is easy for the majority of their parishioners to hear and except? I am referring to the psychological problem wherein they are dependent on receiving acceptance and approval from the majority of their parishioners.

Note:
Homilies with numerous radical criticisms of our country's culture, backed up with newly revealed scientific evidence - scientific evidence that is accepted and broadcast and published by our county's mainstream news media - and sometimes also by our country's Christian bishops - is unacceptable criticism within our country's mainstream denominational churches. The psychological addiction to a radically unrealistic belief in the certainty of the basic compatibility of mainstream American culture with the Christian faith runs very deep within the vast majority of "Christians" who regularly attend mainstream-denominational church services.

Catholics who erroneously believe that they should, when it comes to taking stances on social justice issues, always be in agreement with our country's fallible bishops - bishops who are capable of being radically wrong - are still able to be basically in conformity to our country's mainstream cultural. And most of our country's Catholics follow this principle of demon spirits, and therefore erroneously remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream cultural, and they are therefore in need of radical repentance.

So, if a Catholic who is in need of this type of repentance, were to repent, by choosing to believe in and follow an essential Christian and Catholic principle, a principle wherein it is taught that Catholics can not blindly choose to be in agreement with their country's bishops or even the Holy See when it comes to their stances on social justice issues, then that person would become an authentic Christian and Catholic. But, at the same time, that person would be putting himself or herself in a situation wherein he or she may have to follow the Holy Spirit into a social justice prophetic ministry - a social justice prophetic ministry wherein he or she would then have to take many positions on social justice issues that his or her country's bishops or even the Holy See had not yet taken. And in doing so, he or she may have to become a counter-cultural Catholic. And in going that way, he or she would move into (in respect to the majority follower's view) the "unsafe territory" of a counter-cultural lifestyle or movement.

But the apposite is true, blindly limiting ones self to staying in basic conformity to a cultural mainstream lifestyle is the "unsafe territory", it is the "broad way" that Jesus said leads to destruction. But the vast majority of our country's Catholics have (in respect to their stances on social justice issues) blindly choose to go in the "broad-way" by limiting themselves to being basically in agreement with the popular opinion of the cultural majority; as well as to being in blind agreement with, both, our compromising/cultural-majority-pleasing fallible American Catholic Bishops as well as with the (sometimes) fallible Holy See. Therefore, they practice cultural mainstream idolatry, and not Christianity.

The vast majority of our country's Catholics erroneously believe that they are suppose to basically conform to our country's mainstream culture and only take counter cultural positions on social issues when our country's bishops ask them to. And they are following this principle of demon spirits to their own destruction.

# 1 Note:
If a Catholic laymen were to received a lot of evidence that indicated that he or she was being called by Jesus Christ to go way out ahead of his or her country's bishops as well as the Holy See and fulfill a very glorious social justice prophetic ministry; and he or she would not accept that prophetic ministry because he or she believed that he or she had to be in agreement with his or her country's bishops as well as the Holy See, when it comes to their position on social justices issues. Then even the most glorious Christian and Catholic social justice ministry could be erroneously rejected.

# 2 Note:
The vast majority of people attending Catholic Church services on weekends are so psychologically addicted to going in the way of the cultural majority, that therefore, they can not even follow an essential Christian and Catholic principle. And by not follow it, they neglect to exercise individual discernment with skepticism and critical restraint, before basically agreeing with both the culture majority's positions on social justice issues, as well as with their (I believe) compromising/majority- pleasing American Catholic bishops' positions on social justice issues. And this essential Christian and Catholic principle that teaches us to use personal discernment is not being taught from Catholic Church pulpits throughout America. Therefore, the vast majority of Catholic laymen are psychologically incapable of forming (unacceptable to cultural -mainstreamers) social justice movements. And this is a primary cause of why there are so many health epidemics and social atrocities occurring in America.

When Jesus spoke to His disciples and said: "Broad is the gate and wide is the way that leads to destruction and many go therein" and "straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to everlasting life and few go therein" he was teaching them an essential Christian principle. He was teaching them, and not only them, but all future Christians that they would need to question the majority's opinion and then be willing to accept and promote a minority opinion if the minority opinion proved to be correct. However, nowadays, are the majority of our country's Christians following this essential Christian principle? No, they are not. The majority of our country's citizens believe that our country is basically good. And the majority of our country's Christians erroneously believe that it is unpatriotic and therefore a grave sin to question the basic goodness of our country. Therefore they will not lesson to me or any other counter cultural Christian when ever we try to present evidence that, we believe, indicates that our country is evil and not basically good. Therefore, they are not following the principle that Jesus said leads to everlasting life. Instead they are following the principle that Jesus says leads to "destruction".

If a Catholic limits his or her self to being basically in agreement with his or she country's bishops, when it comes to taking positions on social justice issues, then he or she is practicing bishop-following-idolatry. We are suppose to be following Jesus, not our country's fallible bishops. And it can also be bishop/cultural-majority following idolatry, as it is in the case of most of our country's so-called "Catholics". There is such a thing as laymen social justice prophetic ministries. Lay social justice prophetic ministries that help the bishops fulfill their prophetic ministries. And in respect to all the discrepancies that our country's Catholic bishops believe in, if these discrepancies were to be believed in by Catholic laymen, their belief in these discrepancies would almost lead them to a counter-cultural lifestyle. It is, therefore, in respect to this situation, especially critical (considering the environmental crisis, abortion, and other anti-life atrocities occurring in our country) that Catholics be open to receive, from Jesus Christ, a prophetic social justice ministry wherein they are called into a counter-cultural expression of the Christian and Catholic faith. And if they are not open to receive a counter-cultural calling, from Jesus Christ, then they are therefore guilty of cultural mainstream idolatry.

What I mean by "a counter-cultural expression of the Christian and Catholic faith", is a radical lifestyle change wherein Catholics separate themselves from America's mainstream culture, to the degree that they dress differently, talk differently, live in different houses, drive different vehicles, participate in radically different church services...etc..

I have Catholic relatives that for years have received a lot of evidence that indicates that they are being called, by Jesus Christ, to join me within a social justice ministry - a social justice ministry wherein they would have to go from being in conformity to our country's mainstream cultural to being in conformity to my God-inspired counter- cultural lifestyle and movement. But they are brain-washed cultural majority followers that believe that no matter what the circumstances, they would never have to leave the way of the cultural majority in order to stay in the will of God. Therefore, because of this heretical belief of theirs, they have not joined me within this counter cultural social justice ministry. They stubbornly continue year after year to follow the popular principle of demon spirits that leads them ever deeper into cultural mainstream idolatry. And they do so, despite the fact that the Catholic Church teaches, by presenting examples throughout its history, that Catholics need to be open to receive a calling from Jesus Christ to enter into social justice ministries wherein they may have to become counter- cultural Catholics within the country that they are citizens.

And in respect to the numerous discrepancies between the Catholic faith and our country's mainstream culture, discrepancies that our country's Catholic bishops believe in, this essential Christian and Catholic principle is especially relevant. By not accepting and following this essential Christian and Catholic principle my relatives have created for themselves a heretical boundary line that they stay within. And by doing so, they can not fulfill the goals of the very glorious prophetic ministries that Jesus Christ is calling them to fulfill. And I have not been able to find a Catholic priest that will tell them the truth about this essential Christian and Catholic principle. And I am not surprised because all that I have ever heard Catholic priests teaching from their pulpits is the heretical principle that leads their parishioners to believe that all they have to do is remain basically in conformity to the mainstream culture and they be doing the will of God, or, in respect to some priest they will tell their parishioners that they should be slightly counter cultural and they will be doing the will of God. They are confusing blind trust in our country's bishops with Christianity. And that is the reason why the vast majority of people attending Catholic services on the weekends are also confusing blind conformity to our country's mainstream cultural or to blind conformity to a slightly counter cultural expression of our country's culture with authentic Christianity.

If this essential Christian and Catholic principle, the principle that teaches that - church goers that refuse to use individual discernment and then critically examine their culture, to the degree wherein they allow themselves to become open to hear a calling from Jesus Christ to become counter-cultural, are not Christians, but cultural mainstream idolaters or idolatresses - were to be taught from all of our country's Catholic church pulpits. Then, after most of the cultural majority following idolaters and idolatresses either repented and became authentic Catholics or quit attending church services, most of the people attending church services, Catholics willing to go in the way of a more than slightly counter-cultural movement, would be inspired to form social justice movements that would put to an end the many social atrocities that are occurring in our country and throughout the world.

But, at this present time, this essential Christian and Catholic principle is not being taught by the vast majority of our country's Catholic priests. They're the priest that like to preach feel good homilies as a means of keeping so-called "Christian" cultural majority following idolaters and idolatresses from being scared away from attending church services because they would not be able to accept and practice this essential Christian and Catholic principle. A principle that tells them that they may have to leave the way of the cultural majority (even before their bishops) and join a persecuted counter-cultural movement in order to stay in a state of grace. A truth that terrifies church-going cultural-majority following idolaters and idolatresses who have to find "safety" in numbers. Or, in other words, they need to find "safety" simultaneously within, both, their fallible compromising/cultural -majority pleasing American Catholic bishops' positions on social justice issues as well as within most of the cultural-majority's positions on social justice issues.

If you're a lay social justice prophet, then no matter how much evidence you may have that indicates that there are a number of radical social injustices occurring in our country - radical social injustices that our county's Catholic bishops and the vast majority of our country's lay Catholics and priests are in denial of - it is virtually impossible to get these people to accept the reality that these radical social injustices exist. And the reason why, is because if they were to allow themselves to look at the evidence, and then consequently come to believe that they exist, they would have to add all of these new discrepancies between the Catholic faith and our country's culture with the discrepancies that they had previously believe in. And if they did that, they would have to come to the realization that they could no longer remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture.

And besides, if these same lay Catholics and priests were to believe in these new discrepancies, the majority of their friends, family members, and fellow church goers would think that they had gone off the deep-end and become radicals, freaks, fanatics or elitists, and that they were no longer good Catholics and loyal patriotic Americans. And they would also believe that this amount of persecution would be too intense for them to bear. So, therefore, if you're a Catholic counter-cultural social justice prophet, do not expect them (without a lot of help from God) to repent, because they have a strong temptation to choose to remain radically diluted cultural mainstream idolaters and idolatresses that blindly trust in our country's fallible Catholic bishops to tell them if and when they need to start thinking about becoming counter cultural.

In fact, most of our country's lay Catholics and priest erroneously believe that, in order to remain in a state of grace, they have to remain basically in conformity to our country's mainstream culture. They have been living in an idolatrous relationship with our country's mainstream culture and now that our country's culture has become radically hedonistic their idolatrous relationship with it stands out like a sore thump.

Our country's greedy health-destroying corporate elite, flood huge amounts of money into, both, our country's political campaigns as well as our country's cultural mainstream news media (along with commercials) in order to form public opinion. They determine what the brainwashed cultural majority believe in, when it comes to stances on social justice issues. And instead of our country's Catholic bishops opposing these money-loving health-destroyers who care nothing about our health they choose not to disturb the multitudes of people that attend their churches on weekends by telling them the truth.

"Our country is a wonderful country". In the past, a past without the internet, it was, considering the medias' and mainline churches bishops' ability to cover up the truth, justified for a pastor to make this statement. But now-days the , acid rain etc.mainstream media new about the environmental crisis (global-warming, acid-rain etc.) alone indicates that our country is not "a wonderful country". Our country's Catholic bishops have never believed in our country's health and earth destroying consumptive materialistic culture. But up until very recent scientific studies and reports about the earths environmental crisis, caused by materialism and consumerism, they did not know just how far down in the cesspool of wickedness our country had descended.

The new scientific reports on global warming indicate that, in this time of an ecological crisis, our country is "the biggest polluter in the world" and therefore a wicked earth- destroying culture of death. This may be very difficult for white cultural-mainstream Americans to accept because of their nationalistic and white-racist false pride problems. But never-the-less every cultural-mainstream American Catholic should be thinking that maybe they should repent from believing that "our country is a wonderful country". And in doing so, they would then become open to hear Jesus calling them to become counter- cultural Catholics, wherein they would, hopefully, become responsible stewards of God's creation.

Then there are the new scientific studies and reports that recently came out on tobacco and alcohol wherein it has been revealed that these traditional legal and available cultural-mainstream American drugs are very addictive and dangerous drugs. And that the legality and availability of these drugs are causing terrible health epidemics and social atrocities.

New scientific studies and reports indicate that traditionally accepted activities, such as smoking cigarettes, and drinking alcohol are radically dangerous activities that are responsible for terrible health epidemics and social atrocities. High percentages of people that start drinking alcohol, with the intent to drink moderately, end up drinking excessively. So drinking alcohol, not just alcoholism, is dangerous. And the same can be said about tobacco. But our country's Catholic bishops as well as the Holy See evidently fearing that multitudes of church-goers would be offended if they came out with statements that condemned these activities, have, therefore, not come out with statements expressing their desire to have these harmful activities criminalized.

However, it has been easy for our country's Catholic bishops and the Holy See to speak out against non-traditional white Euro-American drugs. Or, pre-Columbus medicinical drugs traditionally used by our country's Native Americans. If they would come out with statements wherein they expressed their disapproval of the use of alcohol and tobacco the white-racial false-pride of multitudes of white Euro-American church-goers, false-pride about their white Euro-American traditional drugs being good drugs, would be shattered. And the Catholic Church's new positions on these social justice issues would be hard for multitudes of white-American churchgoers to hear and accept. So, therefore, our country's bishops and the Holy See have been compromising on this race-related social justice issue fearing that their popularity would radically diminish and church attendance would radically drop. And then there are the economic income negative consequences that they have to consider. If they were to appropriately minister their prophetic responsibilities and speak out against these white-racist harmful activities, who, after church attendance radically declined, would pay for and or maintain their luxurious energy-consuming and earth-destroying churches?

Too many of our country's Catholic bishops have committed sex scandal cover-ups. And we know that in the past our country's Catholic bishops were radically wrong when it came to some of their social justice positions on issues. Social justice positions such as their decision to found and then run cultural-genocidal Native American boarding schools; and in the southern part of our country a lot of Catholic bishops owned black African slaves. This tells us that they can not be trusted, but that is exactly what the vast majority of our country�s brain-washed priest and laymen are doing, they are blindly trusting in their fallible bishops. Their fallible bishops tell them when, and when not, to take counter cultural positions on social justice issues, and then they neglect to exercise an authentic Christian moral conscience by blindly obeying them.

When our country's medical and scientific communities come out with reports that tell us that many of our traditional social justice positions on health and environmental issues have been radically wrong and that we will need to make radical lifestyle changes to avoid catastrophic consequences, the greedy and corrupt corporate elite get very upset because they would loose a lot of money if the majority of our country's citizens were to make radical lifestyle changes, radical lifestyle changes influenced by the medical and scientific communities' new health and environmental reports. So the greedy and corrupt corporate elite contact their bought and paid for republican and democratic governmental officials and their mainstream news media people and then use them to influence mainstream denominational bishops to brainwash the majority of our country's church-going citizens so that they continue in their health and earth destroying traditional ways. This is how the system works. And just like when the Pope supported American Catholic bishops support of the slave traders the current Pope supports American Catholic bishops support of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite who promote hedonism (legalization of alcohol and tobacco etc.) in our country (and by way of our country's imperialistic agenda) throughout the world. And I believe that most Islamic nations would agree with this position of mine.

If you want to be a successful politician in our country's bi-monopoly political system you will have to do the will of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite. Or, if you want to be a successful media person within an American mainstream news outlet you will have to do the will of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite. And if you want to be a bishop in one of our country's cultural mainstream "Christian" churches you will have to do the will of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite. This is how the system works. Our country's greedy and corrupt corporate elite rule and reign over our country's, either corrupted or brainwashed, cultural mainstream citizens.

Our country's mainline denominational churches are brainwashing institutions where the bishops of these church's tell their people to remain basically in conformity to the mainstream culture, and that they should only take counter cultural positions on social justice issue when they have asked them to do so. And these same bishops know that if they were to take any more counter cultural positions on social justice issues - counter cultural position that would contradict the cultural-mainstream positions of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite, that they would not hold their positions of power and influence for every long. So they continually do the will of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite. And so do the vast majority of laymen and low ranking ministers. They do so, because they excessively obey their church's fallible bishops; and do so, by not being open to receive a calling from Jesus to take a number of counter cultural positions on social justice issues, counter cultural positions other than those that their bishops have asked them to take. Hence they do not exercise an authentic Christian moral conscience, and this is the reason why our country's greedy and corrupt corporate elite have gained the power and influence to rule and reign over the majority of our country's citizens.

When the majority of our country's churchgoers read their newspapers and become aware of the new medical and environmental scientific reports that indicate that they should make radical lifestyle changes, by taking many new counter cultural positions on social justice issues, they choose not to do so because their bishops have not asked them to do so. They excessively obey their fallible bishops by not taking counter cultural positions on social justice issues, that is, counter cultural positions other than those that their bishops have asked them to take. And their bishops do the will of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite in order to maintain their positions of power and influence. Therefore the vast majority of laymen and low ranking ministers (indirectly and unintentionally) continue to do the will of the greedy and corrupt corporate elite. And this is how the greedy and corrupt corporate elite rule and reign over most of our country s citizens.

In our country the greedy and corrupt corporate elite rule and reign. And their rule and reign is leading our country and the whole world toward unprecedented health epidemics and an environmental holocaust that could destroy all life on earth. Our country fits the description of "Babylon the whore" in the book of Revelation. And it say in the book of Revelation: "Come out of her my people that you do not participate in her sins and therefore receive the plagues that are going to come upon her". Or, in other words, the word of God is saying "Americans come out of your country's mainstream culture or suffer my imminent wrath".

Our bishop's sex scandal cover-ups tell us that they are quite capable of being extremely immoral when it comes to hiding the truth so that church attendance does not decrease and their positions of power and influence are not diminished. So this should influence priests and laymen to use personal discernment when it comes to evaluating if they should take more counter cultural positions on social justice issues than their bishops have asked them to take. But the vast majority of our country's Catholics are probably already too radically brain-washed to ever come to a place where they would be able to use personal discernment when it comes to deciding their positions on social justice issues. Therefore, it will probably be necessary to convert a large number of non-brain-washed people, people who can think for themselves (such as hippy counter-cultural revolutionaries and Native Americans) to the Catholic Church in order for the popular expression of the Catholic Church in our country to become something other than a health and earth destroying materialistic cult. A cult made up of people who serve the corrupt and greedy corporate elite.

Evidence indicates that our country's Catholic bishops are committing cover-ups when it comes to their cultural mainstream social justice positions associated with, both, the environmental crisis as well as health epidemics. Imagine how many Catholics would quit attending church services if their bishops took care of their responsibilities and came out with counter cultural solutions on how to solve the environmental crisis. And then also imagine how many more Catholics would quit attending church services if their bishops were to come out with counter cultural solutions on how to solve our country's many health epidemics. If our country's Catholic bishops were to take counter cultural positions on environmental and more health issues the number of Catholics who would quit attending church services would be numerous. Hence, we do not see our country's irresponsible Catholic bishops taking counter-cultural positions on these social justice issues. Or, in other words, we counter cultural Catholics see our irresponsible American bishops, bishops who care more about numbers than essential Christian morals, committing more and more cover-ups. If these serious cover-up problems are not solved in the near future, our country's Catholics (not including a small minority of us counter cultural Catholics) will be responsible for leading our country and the whole world into, both, health epidemics that could destroy most of the world's human population, as well as an ecological holocaust wherein all life on earth could be destroyed.

Most of our country's citizens are living in the "Kingdom of Darkness" that is working overtime to hold them in its captivity through lies, deception, and illusion. It is Satan's ultimate end-time delusion scheme and they are being programmed constantly through its propaganda, through the techniques of mind control, both from the natural realm as well as from the spirit realm. This "strong delusion" is taking everyone who does not receive the "love for the truth" to destruction!!! We are not on a pleasure cruise, or just experiencing life as it naturally unfolds. We are IN A WAR ZONE!!! A war being fought between God and Satan, between Jesus and anti-Christ, the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness. If you are not viewing your existence on this earth from this perspective, YOU ARE DECEIVED!!! Not only deceived, but headed as a speeding train toward a horrifying end. The days just ahead are going to be horrendous as this WAR comes to its conclusion. It is time to get with Jesus and His Army, or get run over by it.

NOTE: By "Army", I do NOT mean one of carnal, worldly arms, but one armed spiritually with the absolute authority of Jesus to rule the nations with a ROD OF IRON, smashing the rebellious as clay pots with the "Spoken Word of God".

In the name of "freedom", "democracy" and "Christianity" our country's cultural mainstream "Christians", approve of and promote radical hedonism not only in our country but throughout the world as well. And this radical heathenism is causing unprecedented health epidemics, social atrocities and the destruction of our earths� ecosystems. Hence our country's cultural mainstream "Christians" are evil doers doomed to receive God's wrath if they do not repent and "come out" of our country's mainstream culture and into a counter cultural expression of the Christian faith.

With the coming of the youth of the 1960s counter-cultural movement, multitudes of young cultural-mainstream Americans became disillusioned with mainstream American culture and became counter-cultural. We became counter-cultural by initiating a globalization movement. A globalization movement wherein we believed that by taking the best of the past of all the different people's cultures and traditions and then combining them into a single global culture we could create a global culture wherein all of humanity could eventually find its way to unity. So this counter-cultural vision became our world-unifying mission. And because Native American culture quickly became the predominate cultural expression of our counter- culture's globalization word-unifying movement, assimilation into Native American culture and spirituality became the predominate cultural assimilation process of our counter-cultural globalization movement. This popular counter cultural movement is another reason why our country's cultural-mainstream Catholics should begin to question whether country's mainstream culture is basically compatible with Christianity and therefore question whether they should continue to remain basically in conformity to it. A form of questioning that would open their hearts and minds to wherein they would be enabled to hear Jesus calling them to join a Christian and Catholic expression of the youth of the 1960's counter-cultural world-unifying globalization movement.

There is a present-day youth of the 1960's counter-cultural movement wherein over 25,000 counter-cultural revolutionaries gather together annually. These annual conferences are called the Rainbow Family Gatherings.

I believe that when white Europeans entered into the traditional home lands of Native Americans they should have assimilate into their culture and spirituality, and that they should not have tried to force them to assimilate into their culture. And then later, after somewhat repenting, they should not have instituted policies to perpetuate two different cultures. The CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH says: Immigrants (white European Catholics entering the home lands of Native Americans were immigrants.) are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, (white European Catholic immigrants did not think that they were responsible to oblige Native Americans by showing respect with gratitude for the material and spiritual heritage of their country, when they received them.) to obey its laws�" White European Catholics should have assimilated into Native American culture, or obeyed their laws, when they arrived in their homelands. And in a way, it is still not to late for them, or rather, for us, their great-great-great-grand children, to assimilate into Native American culture. And that is what a lot of us youth of the 1960s have done. And we are expecting the rest of our country's white Euro-American population to follow in our footsteps.
Our country's Catholic Bishops acknowledge that in the past, in respect to race- related social justice issues, a lot of their fellow Catholic Bishops made radical mistakes. Such as Catholic run Native American boarding schools that radically participated in White Euro-America's forced assimilation policies - forced assimilation policies that were responsible for a cultural genocide against Native Americans. And also the participation of a lot of American Catholic Bishops in our country's and Catholic church's radical oppression of enslaved black-Africans. Catholic Bishops owned salves and they used them to help build their churches and 40% of the salves were owned by Catholics that followed their bishops and therefore participated in this American white-racist social injustice atrocity.

If, in the past, America's Catholic Bishops were so radically wrong about race related social justice issues, then imagine just how radically wrong they could be now-days when it comes to race related social justice issues - race related social justice issues, associated with their discernment of how many discrepancies there are between the Catholic faith and America's culture. So, if America's cultural mainstream Catholics were to use their minds correctly, in respect to this concept, they would realize that they can not trust their bishops to look realistically at evidence that could reveal that America's mainstream culture is basically incompatible with the Christian and Catholic faith. And, therefore, they would come to understand, that it is their responsibility to discern for themselves whether America's culture is basically compatible with their Christian and Catholic faith. And in doing so, they would also have to discern whether they could continue to remain basically cultural centrist within America's mainstream culture. And if these mainstream American Catholics were to decide that they could no longer remain cultural centrists because they had determined that America's culture was not basically compatible with their Christian and Catholic faith, they would, therefore, have to also come to the realization that it was obligatory for them to become counter-cultural in order to practice an authentic and holy expression of the Christian and Catholic faith. And I am hoping that the multitudes of mainstream America Catholics will, in respect to our present-day "culture of death" situation, come to understand how relevant, both, this principle and concept are.

Radical criticism:
How far down into the cesspool of wickedness does America's culture have to go before enlightened hierarchal church leaders and lay prophets get on the band wagon and start calling multitudes of church goers to repent and become counter-cultural Christians? And if multitudes of churchgoers are nothing but majority followers who limit how many counter cultural positions on social justice issues they are willing to take how much success can be expected if these enlightened hierarchal and lay prophets try to evangelize these churchgoers to a counter-cultural expression of Christianity? I am certainly not finding much success in my mission to evangelize these people to a counter-cultural expression of Christianity.

Wahkon, Minnesota's Sacred Heart Church Pastor, Father Ray Steffes, should stop presenting cultural centrist homilies and present homilies wherein he presents historical information about white-racist social-injustice atrocities committed by past popes as well as by white-American Catholic Bishops. And then he should tell his congregation to imagine that they were living back in those days when these atrocities were occurring. And that because of a social justice prophet who God had raised up in their mist, they were, therefore, aware of these atrocities being committed by the pope and American's Bishops. And that they were also, at that time, called by Jesus Christ, to a social justice ministry wherein they had to, both, criticize their pope and American Bishops as well as call them to repentance. And then, Father Ray Steffes, should tell his congregation that there is a member of Sacred Heart Parish that has received state wide, national and even international recognition, from Catholic church leaders, as a social justice prophet. And that he has been talking to him, Sacred Heart's Council and members of Sacred Heart's Bible Study Group about a number of that he believes to be, present-day social injustice atrocities being committed by the pope and America's Catholic Bishops. And that he believes that he is being calling, by Jesus Christ, to make Sacred Heart Parishioners aware of these present-day atrocities. And that he also believes that they are being called, by Jesus Christ, to join him in a social justice ministry wherein Sacred Heart Parishioners would have to make radical life-style changes, and also call the pope and America's Bishops to repentance. And in doing so, lead the way in respect to putting to an end to the many social injustice atrocities occurring in America and throughout the world.