The venom directed toward evangelicals is partly deserved due to reliance on government policies to advance the Kingdom of God and a Pharisaic replacing of the Gospel of Grace with noisy oppositions to select (i.e. other people's) sins.

On the other hand, it's apparent that the corporate media oligopoly has been busy for some time demonizing "evangelicals" in a way that would be denounced as vicious bigotry and hate-mongering if directed at practically anyone else. The fact that so many hate something they can't even define shows that the response is a conditioned one. Not surprising in a society trained to feel instead of think.

They were called Christians first at Antioch Acts 11:26. It was, at one time, a good thing to be thought of as Christian. Then the people who hate God and His ways attacked that moniker until it became a bad thing. "Evangelical" was the term that took over. Now it has the same conditions put onto it. It is a little embarrassing that some of the accusations against us are valid. However much that may be true,I am a "Christian" and will bear whatever attitude comes my way related to that.

It doesn't matter if we call ourselves Evangelical, Fundamentalist, or whatever. Jesus Himself said, "all men will hate you because of Me." (Luke 10:22a)We can change what we call ourselves, but it won't make this fact go away. It's not something we like, but its something that is. We are not the world's favorite people, and we've already been told that we aren't going to be. But He did go on to say in the same verse, "but he who stands firm to the end will be saved."

It is the Holy Spirit who inspires one, or a group of people, to have a heart, a concern, an unconditional love for the lost and unsaved person who may spend eternity in hell.

It is a way of life, a desire to share the good news of Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins, to those who are lost and dying around us.