Would you consider this person an evangelical?

[John Dibble]

Sounds like a good Christian to me. Does he respect the choice of non-Christians not to be Christian?

[John Dibble]

JohnDibble, he does respect the choice of others to be non-Christians. He has non-christian/non-religious friends and often speaks well of Jews and Muslims.

Then, I stand by my earlier statement - he's just a good Christian. Christianity teaches tolerance, and even if he preaches his ways to others, he respects the right of others to decide on their own, and gets along with them as his fellow man.

[John Dibble]

Ilikeverin, what you smoking? It's not an insulting term, or shouldn't be. It's like Socialism, or Fascism, Republican, or Democrat. Just a word that, while having emotionally charged nuance to some, needn't be an insulting word to anyone.

While I never said that right out, congrats, you got my [not-so-]subtle undertone

Yes, I think evangelicalism (I doubt that's a word ) is a bad thing, because, to me, it suggests that you think your religion is out-and-out superior to another, not just different.

How can one be a part of any religion at all, whether Jewish, Catholic, Protestant or just all around "Christian", unless they believe it to be the "most correct"?  That isn't saying that other people are going to Hell.  It is amazing how wacked out and intollerant the Left's veiw of the world is when it comes to religion and religious people.

Intolerance begets intolerance, unfortunately. True Christians are tolerant, but there are those who claim to be Christian but do not really follow the religion's teachings. For instance, there is a group that comes on my college campus every now and then and they tell people 'repent or burn' and they tell women that they need to go be subservient housewives or they'll go to hell too. So, of course some people are going to take offense, and as is human nature they will often hate those that offended them, and sometimes group those who are in the same group, even though they are different.

[John Dibble]

I have a confession to make. The guy's name isn't Steve, it's George. He was born in Connecticut, moved to Texas, and now he lives in Washington D.C.(1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to be exact).

Still think he isn't evangelical?

So you're a lying sinner? You're going to burn for this.

Seriously though, I don't have any problem with Bush as an individual. Policy is where I disagree with him. Also though, none of us know him personally so none of us can really know what kind of person he is.

[John Dibble]

I'd say this person is a committed Christian

I'd consider myself an evangelical but I would take issue with being defined as a fundamentalist because I associate fundamentalism with the political right.

Dave

In case you missed it, Kodrastos confessed this person is actually Bush.