This reminds me of some of the truly hilarious anthropological expeditions from Time magazine to chronicle an obscure religious sect call "Christians." (Among many other excellent pieces of religious reporting over the years, they had an article about the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. Which included Catholics -- including at least one Catholic priest wearing a Roman collar in the photograph they used.)
Edit: For benefit of our international readers: this is sort of like including a Golden Retriever (dog breed) in the lineup of 25 beautiful cats.
I'm confused by your comments here. Are you claiming that Roman Catholics aren't Christians? Or are you claiming that Roman Catholics are never evangelicals?
Certainly a Golden Retriever is never a cat - about that I am not confused.
Evangelicals are Protestants. "Protestant" is basically a blanket term for "not Catholic". We're pretty different across the board from Evangelicals, who are by and large turbo-fundamentalists. In 12 years of Catholic schooling, for instance, I was specifically and repeatedly taught that the world was not 10,000 years old, and that people did not ride dinosaurs.
Ah, I've learned something. I always thought "Evangelicals" were simply Christians (or indeed, others) who practised Evangelism. However, from what you say a particular sub-class of Christians have decided to take the name and make it their own. That makes sense, and matches what I've now double-checked.
Thank you. I'll read some more to avoid any further confusions.
Edit: For benefit of our international readers: this is sort of like including a Golden Retriever (dog breed) in the lineup of 25 beautiful cats.