Of course they do. Evolution, Marxism, and paganism are not of God, and did not originate from God, or with the Christian God in mind.

They lead folks away from God. So it’s only natural that “they look forward to the collapse and destruction of the Christian edifices and the world view that it supports.”

Solution: Contend for Christ. That means engagement with competing worldviews. That sometimes means polemical conflict.

That sometimes means “friendly” fire from liberal hirelings who shrink from and undermine polemical conflict.

Genuine shepherds protect sheep and shoot wolves.

I think evangelicals need to re-conceive our desires and goals in the context of a long-term vision of the Church. For too long have we been ordered by a spirit of the age (the same that has infected our familial, economic and political lives) that elevates short-term thinking and behaviors rather than fostering generational relationships, practices, and institutions that embody and image forth the true nature of reality and history.

For example, our pastors are very busy and worried about evangelizing the current generation, but don’t see how short-term “successes” in “relevant” evangelism can undermine the evangelism of future generations. With good intentions, evangelical leaders use up the linguistic and cultural “capital” built up over time by our ancestors in the faith, of whose imperfect, yet holy lives we are ashamed in our political correctness, resources that establish a backdrop of divinely created order and justice which presence is necessary for the Gospel of mercy to even be intelligible, much less persuasive.

If the churches of evangelicalism desire to be relevant beyond this current generation, they should begin or continue to devote and sacrifice their resources to wide-spread and deep Christian education for the first 20 years of every child’s life. Other institutions of the media, arts, business and politics are also critical, but the best necessary investment is in education because wisely educated Christians will have the resources to reorder those other institutions over time.

The goal is obedience to God’s command and our mission not simply to make converts, but to make disciples for the long haul unto the eschaton. It’s easier not to have to think about long term consequences that will arise after a generation’s passing, but it is not faithful.

I fear is that we’re too busy to make inconvenient changes in our priorities and lives that are necessary for the Kingdom of God to spread over the long term in the world we live in today.