The cultural pillars of the West are Christian

By: Hugo Marcelo Balderrama - 21/07/2026

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On July 6, 2026, the National Research Center for Human Evolution published a report in the journal Scientific Reports on the behavior of the first Homo sapiens to inhabit the Earth. The results reflect three things: 1) a tendency to interbreed with other hominins; 2) brain development that drove them to migrate; and 3) violence as one of their means of conflict resolution. In other words, from our origins, we settled disputes with kicks.

For their part, historians of different trends and eras agree on one thing: Violence is the common denominator in the history of humanity.

In fact, ancient peoples—from the Celts to the Maya—had gods dedicated to war. These deities often became figures that reflected humanity's relationship with conflict and military strategy. Worshipping them gave troops a sense of unity and purpose. By invoking the warrior god together, combatants felt protected by a higher power that gave meaning to violence. Beyond emotions, these deities provided a moral order amidst the conflict. The bloodbaths, which included sacrificing the children of the vanquished, were not carried out for mere economic and sexual ambitions, but rather as a "divine mandate."

In other words, biological and historical studies reach the same conclusion: we are a very violent species.

But how is it possible that, despite our tendency towards self-destruction, we have become the dominant species?

In "The Fatal Conceit," Friedrich Hayek explains it very well, let's see:

The capacity to learn is more the foundation than the achievement of our reason and understanding. Human beings are not born with wisdom, rationality, and goodness: these qualities must be taught, they must be learned. Morality is not a product of reason, but rather it was those processes of human interaction that fostered the corresponding moral order, facilitating the gradual emergence not only of reason but also of the set of faculties with which we usually associate it. Human beings became intelligent because they previously possessed certain traditions—which must certainly be situated between instinct and reason—to which they could adjust their behavior. In turn, this set of traditions does not derive from the human capacity to rationalize reality, but from habitual responses.

In other words, it was culture that chained our bloodthirsty instincts. Here it's necessary to clarify that by culture we mean all elements of human life that are transmitted socially, whether material or spiritual.

In the West, Christianity is one of the elements that make up our culture. Therefore, it is to Christianity that we owe concepts like compassion and charity, as these are considered virtues in the life of the average Christian. Hence, the left has always considered religion an opiate, blaming it for suppressing the revolutionary impulses of the workers. The Nazi hierarchy shared this view.

Currently, it is the woke movement that wields the anti-Christian sword. Wokism maintains that society is structured around power relations where certain groups (men, whites, heterosexuals, and Christians) oppress others (racial minorities, women, the LGBTQ+ community). One of the elements that enslaves them is Christian morality, since institutions such as marriage, family, and private property are considered oppressive.

Wokism is not merely a political trend; it is a worldview that, through violent social engineering, seeks to become the new moral foundation of the West. It is a very dangerous trend, as it aims to replace forgiveness with revenge and peace with perpetual conflict. For Christians, this confrontation is far from trivial: what is at stake is not just a debate of ideas, but the preservation of the fundamental pillars that have sustained Western civilization for centuries.

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