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June 29, 2011

Huff. Post: Why are Evangelicals losing influence?

by Tim Suttle
The Huffington Post

The Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey of global evangelical leaders which yielded some interesting results.

For one thing, 92 percent of those surveyed believe taking a yoga class is incompatible with being a good evangelical. Seriously? We're against yoga? Only 3 percent of participating evangelical leaders said they believe in evolution through natural selection. However, the number increases to 41 percent if you posit God, as opposed to natural selection, as the source of any actual evolution. (There was no indication of whether those surveyed have ever used the Darwin Awards as a sermon illustration.)

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