Better Than Believing: Christianity or Christianism A reintroduction of two words by William Saffire, via Better Than Believing:

Christians are people who practice Christianity. They do their best to follow the way taught and lived by Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus stands at the center of the constellation of symbols by which they make sense out of their existence.
Christianists are devotees of Christianism. They use Christian symbols in propounding an ideology that they want to impose on society. They make sense out of their existence by convincing themselves that they are right and that any who disagree are outside of God’s favor.

Why are progressive Christians forced to qualify what kind of Christian we are? It implies that 'standard' Christianity is whatever the traditionalist right-wing calls it. Now we have a different word. After all, we think of the Taliban not as Moslems, but Islamists.
I like these words and the concepts behind them. I think I'll include them in daily conversation  ¶ 10:32 PM