But what were the problems of this world? Dr. John Rao shows that they involved an effort to build multicultural unity on the basis of submission to a divinized state. They involved worshipping a "success" which was supported by rhetorical "word merchants" and which tried to suppress serious philosophical discussions. They involved trying to tempt individual cultures and different religions into the same kind of emasculating "integration" that troubles the modern western world. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: The Analogy of Contemporary Christianity With its Ancient Setting - 2001 VonHildebrand Institute