Secular State or Anti-Christian State? The Threat to Religious Freedom

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 24/11/2025

Guest columnist.
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If there's one thing that characterizes the modern world, it's confusion. Political language is filled with talismanic words, those used to camouflage evil; weasel words, which say one thing but mean another; and cursed words, which serve to instill a phobia in anyone who thinks differently.

Universities are being forced to have transgender bathrooms. Business owners must pay exorbitant taxes as compensation for their lack of "social conscience." The media cannot contradict the politically correct script. Ordinary citizens, in pursuit of a better world, are being forced to change their customs and way of life. In short, for Wokism, nothing should be outside the control of the State, because the opposite leads to injustices and inequalities.

However, those who demand a panopticon to monitor and help design the "new man," made in their own image and likeness, are the first to shout: State and church, separate matters; in particular, they use this slogan to demonize those of us who defend life from conception.

A valid question arises here: can religion and politics be separated?

No, because every religion includes a worldview of humanity, culture, society, and politics. In fact, Wokism, with its worship of Mother Nature and its deification of self-perception, constitutes a kind of religion.

While religion and politics are impossible to separate, what must be separated is the State from churches and religious organizations of any faith.

The separation of church and state is most consistent with democratic principles, because, on this point, as on many others, the best way to ensure and safeguard freedom is to limit state power. There should be no official religion, much less subsidies or special laws for certain denominations. The state remains uninvolved in these matters, since, as Abraham Kuyper (Presbyterian minister and Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the early 20th century) would say, they far exceed its sphere of influence.

The true intention that Wokism hides under the label of secularism is the following:

In Christianity, koinonia is fundamental, a biblical concept that teaches love for others, regardless of their social status or skin color. This indicates how important participation and co-participation in faith, witness, brotherly love, mutual support, and hope were to the first Christians—nothing wrong with that, right?

However, these principles clash head-on with the dialectic of oppressor and oppressed. Hence, for example, in Bolivia, the left has used decolonization as a battle cry, thus exacerbating ethnic conflicts, or feminist groups seek confrontation between men and women. A society of everyone against everyone else is the perfect breeding ground for saviors and messiahs. Nothing is more useful to those ambitious for power than creating a social apocalypse that only they can stop.

Furthermore, in a world that prides itself on being diverse and tolerant, the only diversity that is not welcome is religious diversity, and tolerance does not extend to Christians. Indeed, Joshua Williams, Open Doors' Africa director, explained in an interview with www.libertadreligiosa.com:

In Nairobi: Over the past 15 to 20 years, 19,000 churches or chapels have been attacked and damaged in Africa, 15,000 of them in Nigeria. In 2024, it is estimated that more than 4,500 Christians were killed for their faith in 12 Sahel countries, 114,000 were forced to flee, 16,000 homes were destroyed, and 1,700 churches were damaged.

In conclusion, under the pretext of a secular state, the aim is to silence Christians and prevent them from practicing their faith.

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