Advice to Republicans: Don't go back and check on a dead skunk

The Wall Street Journal | November 9, 2006 | Dick Armey

[Raycpa]

Yes, you're trying to shoe-horn.

You accuse me of your offense. I said from the start that all Christians are evangelicals. You apparently didn't understand what the word meant and thought it described a subset of protestants that call themselves Evangelicals, thereby emphasizing one aspect of Christian life. I then showed you two sources to show that the primary common meaning of evangelical is precisely as I used it to describe the larger call for all Christians and showed you where Catholics are called by their confirmation vows to be evangelicals by specifically spreading the gospel.

You are the one attempting to narrow or shoe-horn the larger universally understood meaning of evangelical into the smaller box that describes certain protestant sects.

Here is another statement that I think will confuse you but it happens to be true:

All Christians are members of the catholic church but not all Christians are Catholic.