Over the last weekend we read about the Anglican Church, aka the Church of England organizing several events related to Charles Darwin & the Theory of Evolution. While the news media were quick to report about these events, the news media were unaware that for a long time, the Anglican Church no longer speak for Christians & Christianity around the world.
Firstly, the western world is no longer regarded as the epitome of Christianity. Neither North America nor Europe are regarded as the Christian World anymore. The biggest & fastest growing churches today are not in North America or Europe. They are in Asia, Africa & South America. To Christians in these three continents, Christianity is already dying in North America & Europe, especially in the United Kingdom. The days of great scholars like Michael Green & James Ian Packer are gone. The Anglican Church today is a joke.
So when news filtered out that the Anglican Church were organizing the said events, the churches in Asia, Africa & South America didn't even blinked. The Christian Faith has been reduced to nothing more than organized religion in the Anglican Church. To many Christians, the Anglican Church is already in advanced stage of rigor mortis.
The story of the Church in Asia, Africa & South America is written in the blood, sweat & tears of its people. In Asia, there is not single country that could be labeled as a Christian country. The Christian Faith is often planted with the blood of its missionaries & leaders in these places. It's not uncommon that imprisonment & persecution is the price Christians in Asia, Africa & South America pay for their belief. Christianity is cheap in the western world.
Today, many countries in these three continents are developed countries. Christians here don't share not care to compromised their Faith unlike those in the West. Respected men & women of science in many countries don't subscribe to the Theory of Evolution. They don't feel the need to buy in into this theory to be good & competent professionals in the world of science & technology. They are not prepared to sell-out their Faith.
The strangest development surrounding Charles Darwin is that some of supporters are now claiming that Charles Darwin was an abolitionist, an activist working against slavery in the UK. Nothing could be further from the truth. This sounds more like a PR exercise to remake Charles Darwin as a respected man of science. If Charles Darwin was passionate about his abolitionist stand, there is not as much a sentence about it in all his letters or books.
In fact, Charles Darwin had a personal dislike for William Wilberforce, the abolitionist & British MP who helped to end the slave trade in the British Empire. In addition, when Charles Darwin was in New Zealand, he expressed his disgust & contempt for the local natives, calling them savages needing training in civilization. So much for his compassion for African slaves. Charles Darwin was very much a bigoted racist.
