Reply #12: Those who answered with the differences between "Evangelical" and "Fundie" [View All]

.... have come closest to answering my question.

There is much in the use of words to convey messages and intent. I worte the OPP using "Evangelicals" as a way to make a *distinction* from "Religiously Insane Christian Fundamentalists". And yet, in some answers (made honestly, it seems to me) they were conflated.

I hope this conversation can continue, but with the understanding that I'm not talking about the followers of men like Dobson or Robertson or Falwell and all the others of that 'hater' bunch. Rather, I am talking about honest believers in Christ with strongly, but honestly held beliefs that, for them, make gays and abortion bad things.

One line of argument with which I have had some success is to ask why, after almost five years of total Republican control, abortion is still legal. From this, one can easily move to the *reasons* for abortion, how, with Clinton as president, abortions were down and now, with Bush in charge, they're back up.

It isn't the choice, I say, its the reasons.

That causes silent thought every time. It gets through.