Over at Why Evolution is True they briefly go over the results from a PEW Foundation poll taken at the 2010 Congress On World Evangelism. This was in Cape Town and had over 4000 evangelical leaders from around the world. Attendance was based upon the percentage of evangelicals in different geographical locations. Which means we here in America had plenty in attendance and apparently most of the attendees participated in the poll.

One of the questions asked was about a belief in evolution. The question was presented with three answers.

“Which statement comes closest to your own views?” – the options being:

1. Humans and other living things have evolved over time due to natural processes such as natural selection.
2. A supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today.
3. Humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”

The three choices being the scientific theory of evolution, intelligent design, or creationism. Unsurprisingly 47% chose biblical creationism with only 3% believing in evolution. Even though science can show the evolution of species throughout our planets’ history evangelicals still deny it. The reason for this is simple: evolution proves that the bible is fallible. Meaning its bullshit. If the bible is bullshit and fallible then Christianity is bullshit. If the bible is fallible then God isn’t perfect, if God isn’t perfect there is no God. Which means that Christianity is a man-made cult largely constructed on the backs of pagan cults that exists today as a means of power, both financially and politically.

71% of evangelicals believe that atheism and secularism are major threats to them. That’s right, people who don’t believe in imaginary supernatural beings and a wish for a secular society, and especially government, are major threats to them. Evangelicals believe that atheism and secularism are more threatening to them and their religion than Islam. Didn’t they declare war on Islam? We know why they feel threatened by a secularization of society. Its because the more irreligious society is as a whole the less control they have to lord over everyone else. Remember, many evangelicals, I’d even say most, believe that David Barton is a historian and that America is a Christian nation. They believe that they have a right to rule this country and force their religion on everyone in it. They believe we are suffering economic hardships not because of a failed economic policy and corrupt politicians but because we have lost our Christian “heritage” and they are seeking to get it back. Christian Heritage is code word for Christian Dominionism and Christian Reconstructionism and they believe America should be governed under biblical law. No, I’m not making this up. They really believe this shit. They don’t hate Islamic Sharia law because its religious in nature they hate it because its not their religion. And they fear the secularization of society because then their children might be exposed to new ideas. When their children are exposed to these new ideas they just might become curious and start looking for answers themselves and God forbid, thinking for themselves too!

And what do the evangelicals have in mind as a way of countering this great atheist threat? Why they’re going to evangelize us. 73% say that we should be targeted for the proselytizing. How they plan to go about this is curious. They think they can do it by getting local missionaries to reach out to us. It is oh, so apparent that these Christians who despise us so much, don’t know much about us at all. Hell, they overwhelmingly hate us but most don’t even find us unfriendly. 49% viewed us as neutral and 8% viewed us as friendly and to you 45% who viewed us as unfriendly you can fuck off. Just kidding! We are also the least likely to be violent. Not a single person who participated in the poll thought atheists were violent.

You should click on the link above to read the rest of WEIT’s review or you can read the PEW report here.

One more thing, the poll found that most evangelical leaders in the Northern Region, which includes North America and Europe believe that the state of evangelism in their neck of the woods will remain stagnant or drop. You know what that means? It means that slowly but surely we are winning. Reason, logic, secularism, humanism and science will win. At least in the developed world and my guess is that’s why they view us with such hostility and feel they need to concentrate on bringing us to their God. I don’t see much hope for them in that.