Like a highly contagious virus, Culture Industries are transforming the world with a corrupting influence on the most unlikely of cultures. The corrupting influence of commercialism has all but destroyed the sacredness of the religious counter-culture and symbols of the Church. For many years, the religious heritage of the Church played a counter-cultural role in American and transnational cultures. It countered the evil aspects of contemporary pop cultures within American and transnational societies. Many of …showed first 75 words of 2475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2475 total…and economic pundits are busy researching the consequences of the developments within pop-culture, they fail to research the hidden meaning of the culture industry's corrupting influence on the counter-culture of America's religious institutions. These people, "…have curiously focused little attention on how global culture industries affect religious traditions and communities. We therefore have no way to judge the significance of the Pope's acting like a media mogul, or godless conglomerates," (Michael Budde, The World Journal).