You only hear this word during election time and it's by the media. The word means "Christians" which is the word everybody who isn't media uses. Why not just say "Christians". I never get this.

Who the hell refers to themselves as an "Evangelical"? Nobody I know.

I actually have grown to hate this word. "Christians", god dammit!!!!! Why won't the media use this word?

Evangelical Christians are a specific kind of Christian, Beardown. Old-school Catholics are not Evangelicals.

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Mainline Protestants and Catholics are not evangelicals, which is why they are dying off.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

It's really quite puzzling. If one really believes that Jesus is the savior, isn't it his or her duty to spread the Good Word? I would suggest a true Christian must be evangelical. You guys aren't trying to hoard heaven, are you?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I try, but nobody listens.

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Evangelicals should start adulting by waiting in line for craft beers.

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You've got you're Roman Catholics, you've got you're Lutherans, you've got you're Baptists and you've got you're Episcopalians. All Christians. There are more denominations. But I've never heard anybody define themself as an "Evangelical".

So if Evangelical is a specific kind, it's a minority. Catholics are the majority of Christians in America. So shouldn't the media tell us their specific voting preferences? What they are saying in the polls?

Evangelicals are on the nutty fringe of the Republican party, so they are important in the primaries.

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Most commonly anymore, Evangelical (upper or lower case) refers to any one of numerous goofy revival movements beginning in the mid-18th century, even though on rarer occasions someone will use 'evangelical' in its more appropriate context which refers to the Greek word for gospel (i.e., good news), which would more closely resemble what your point was, well, pointing towards.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Evangelicals may be the rare segment of Christianity in the US not precipitously declining? I think Evangelicals primarily have their faith dictate their voting instead of other denominations.

WASPs interbred with the Jews and became sterile. died off.

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No WASPS??

You haven't been out east in this country lately.

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So now it's OK with you if we welcome our Christian sisters and brothers that don't believe in evolution?

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There are a couple here and there but all they are is educated and rich. not necessarily white or christian.

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It's kind of a catch-all for Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, megachurchers, TV preacher followers, and other people who suck.

The Catholic Church is damn near irrelevant in a lot of the South, don't forget.

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I know. In the South. But I heard "Evangelicals" from the media in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

It means politically active Christian.

Try her on
She fits like a glove
Too bad she only thinks about
The Lord above

Evangeline Evangeline
I think I love you

God that's a great song!

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Sick of Myself was my jam

I would pay good money to see Seacrest handle some snakes.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don