We live in times when wars are not only fought on battlefields or in the chaos of social media, but within every human being.
The spiritual battle is not an archaic metaphor, nor a rhetorical device of the ancient Church Fathers; it is a tangible, urgent, and permanent reality that defines the destiny of the soul and the world.
The most well-known passage about spiritual warfare in the Bible is Ephesians 6:10-18. In verse 12, Paul says:
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and spiritual hosts of wickedness" (Eph. 6:12).
This statement, too uncomfortable for modern thought, remains valid. Paul clearly assumes that we are involved in a "struggle." However, this conflict seems to be only in the realm of the physical world, that is, people and circumstances. But he mentions that "it is not against flesh and blood"; it is, in fact, a much deeper battle.
Today, this situation is disguised as relativism, lukewarmness, and cynicism. Demons do not always appear with horns; sometimes they come with progressive discourses that empty truth of meaning, or with a spiritual hedonism that anesthetizes the soul amid a false peace.
Quoting the priest Gabriel Calvo Zarraute, although we may use the term cultural battle, which is of Protestant Lutheran origin Kulturkampf, limiting this conflict to the cultural realm is not seeing the full picture. The chaos we face not only has ideological or political dimensions, but it is also, in reality, a spiritual war.
Behind the discourses of progress, sustainability, and social justice, operate globalist elites led by figures like George Soros and Bill Gates, who, through their powerful foundations, have funded a series of projects that mostly align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.
Among these projects are initiatives on public health promoting "vaccines," education with a gender focus (woke), population control, digitization of finances, distorted feminism presented as "gender equality," as well as abortion disguised as "family planning." Although presented as philanthropic efforts, these programs respond to ideological and economic interests that seek to attack the most sacred pillar of all civilization: the family.
In this context, globalist agendas have become a vehicle of the so-called New World Order (NWO), which aims to establish a global control system, threatening values, beliefs, truth, and the church itself, especially persecuting Christians and Catholics.
As writer Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta warns, today one in seven Christians is persecuted worldwide. Between 2021 and 2024, 15,095 Christians were killed and 13,411 imprisoned without trial. In that same period, 27,555 churches were attacked and 12,940 Christians were kidnapped or disappeared. This is the persecution that the mainstream media prefer to silence and that many in the West choose to ignore.
An example of resistance to this spiritual offensive was the recent statement by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, who led an Easter prayer service at the White House, where, during his intervention, he denounced the global persecution against Christians and reaffirmed his commitment to religious freedom, declaring:
"I proudly created the White House Faith Office (WHFO) and a new Department of Justice task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias. There is anti-Christian bias. You don't hear much about it. But it exists. We are curbing radical indoctrination in our schools."
— Trump, D. J. (2025, April 16). Presidential message on Holy Week, 2025. The White House.
This statement by Trump shows that there are only two sides in this war. There is no neutral ground: it is good or evil, lie or truth. People must choose their side. There is no place for the weak who do not defend the truth or who fear offending people. We don't have to be rude, but we must be warriors.
We must defend righteousness and truth in many ways: we can read, inform ourselves, actively participate in public life, understand the events happening in our country and globally, inform ourselves about new laws that threaten freedom of conscience, forced "vaccination" policies, or the supposed "overpopulation" that justifies inhumane practices, and, most importantly, go out to vote with awareness.
If we can't realize that the cultural battle is a manifestation of a spiritual war, we are blind. It is not enough to participate in forums, win debates on social media, post and share news on X, or impose laws that favor certain values; a spiritual rebirth is necessary to return to human beings their true identity, meaning, and purpose.
