[BillyBoy]

I don’t like the term “apologist”. I have nothing to apologize for.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I don’t like the term “apologist”. I have nothing to apologize for.

A lot of our English terms are derived from either Greek or Latin. The word -- Apologetics is one of them.

Etymology. The term apologetics derives from the Ancient Greek word apologia (ἀπολογία). In the Classical Greek legal system, the prosecution delivered the kategoria (κατηγορία), the accusation or charge, and the defendant replied with an apologia, the defense, using reason and evidence to convince others.

[nwrep]

Not apologist. Apologetic.

Richard Nixon was an apologist. Saint Paul was an apologetic.

[katana]

It's a derived word as mostly used today that bothers you. Apologia is Latin for a defense of one's beliefs or actions. How it evolved into apology, or "I'm sorry for what I did" in English isn't really that clear to me. But neither is how such a wonderfully useful expression for giddy happiness like "gay" turned into an adjective for sodomites.