That is to say, I was raised in a military family that spent the majority of my youth in the Southeastern United States, where Evangelical Christianity has a significant influence, and although my parents were not themselves particularly devoted to organized religion, members of my mother's family were, so I was exposed to it now and again–so I end not knowing if, say, I was ever baptised, though I would be suprised if I wasn't.
Anyway, I certainly haven't considered myself a Christian since I could make an informed choice, and since leaving college I have been pretty open about it–while your average Christian and I certainly would certainly share a number of values, I suspect we would differ on many things as well, including why we hold those values.
Still, I live in North Carolina and Billy Graham country is just a bit up the Interstate, so I'm sure that an awful lot of the people I interact with here would identify themselves as Christian, and perhaps even as Evangelicals. Normally that doesn't even show up on my radar screen–as I said, we share a lot culturally, and although I've rejected a portion of that culture, I've hardly rejected all of it–but then I read something like this, or I remember the fact that Jerry Falwell claiming that September 11th was his God's judgement on America, and it absolutely scares the piss out of me.
As spectacular as September 11th was, it was hardly the first instance of domestic terror the US has ever experienced, and a lot of that prior work was done by just that sort of nutjob, who thinks his Christian God has told him to bomb an abortion clinic or something moronic like that.
I wonder if those sorts of crimes will be ruled as terrorist actions by this all-too Evangelical government we seem to have elected?