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Daniel (Bill): Indeed, this [[enlightenment]] is a [[process]], as you describe it, the opening of one door and walking down the [[path]] to the next, and so forth.

Daniel (Bill): Indeed, this [[enlightenment]] is a [[process]], as you describe it, the opening of one door and walking down the [[path]] to the next, and so forth.

You see, one of the things that your [[Christian]] [[culture]] is woefully ignorant of is the [[value]] of other cultures and [[religions]]. Your Christian culture has assumed that it has, if not all the answers a large [[majority]], that it knows more and is in better favor with God than the rest of the planet. This is totally [[erroneous]]. It is true that Christianity embodies more of the [[Part 4|teaching of Michael, Jesus of Nazareth]], than other religions, but there is so much [[value]] in other religions which is only now being understood, for example the [earth] [[stewardship]] concept which [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_%28Americas%29 Native Americans] have understood for centuries. This time of [[enlightenment]] is seeing the bringing together of [[truth]] from throughout [[Urantia]], and your [[technology]], the [[Internet]], the possibility for travel worldwide, for some at least, these things are having a significant, [[positive]] [[effect]].

You see, one of the things that your [[Christian]] [[culture]] is woefully ignorant of is the [[value]] of other cultures and [[religions]]. Your Christian culture has assumed that it has, if not all the answers a large [[majority]], that it knows more and is in better favor with God than the rest of the planet. This is totally [[erroneous]]. It is true that Christianity embodies more of the [[Part 4|teaching of Michael, Jesus of Nazareth]], than other religions, but there is so much [[value]] in other religions which is only now being understood, for example the [earth] [[stewardship]] concept which [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_%28Americas%29 Native Americans] have understood for centuries. This time of [[enlightenment]] is seeing the bringing together of [[truth]] from throughout [[Urantia]], and your [[technology]], the [[Internet]], the possibility for travel worldwide, for some at least, these things are having a significant, [[positive]] [[effect]].

The biggest problem that your American [[culture]] faces is preoccupation with the [[trivial]], with an [[inversion]] of [[values]], so that the least important is often exalted as the most important. You people, who know better, are salt to preserve that which is [[good]]. You are [[leaven]] to infect the loaf with the yeast of life so that the [[culture]] of this United States, where you live, can expand and [[grow]]. You are also the [[light]] to show the way, to lighten up the [[dark]] corners, to [[focus]] on that which is important. You know all this. I don't say these things because you are [[ignorant]]. I say them because your are beginning to really believe this.

The biggest problem that your American [[culture]] faces is preoccupation with the [[trivial]], with an [[inversion]] of [[values]], so that the least important is often exalted as the most important. You people, who know better, are salt to preserve that which is [[good]]. You are [[leaven]] to infect the loaf with the yeast of life so that the [[culture]] of this United States, where you live, can expand and [[grow]]. You are also the [[light]] to show the way, to lighten up the [[dark]] corners, to [[focus]] on that which is important. You know all this. I don't say these things because you are [[ignorant]]. I say them because your are beginning to really believe this.