The paper presents a parallel reading of Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins by K. Lorenz, and the seventh chapter of The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology by J. Moltmann. The work in particular tries to underline how the two great thinkers, in describing the risks now threatening the future of mankind, arrive at an identical conclusion, even if they come from completely different scientific backgrounds and they follow quite independent ways. It is important to point out, however, that this confluence of different cultural courses must not be seen as a chance fact or a scientific oddity, but has to be understood as a natural consequence of the particular way of considering the role and the rules of scientific research.