>So, I think using the term "evangelist" is actually a sign of high spirits. Self-mockery is a rare art.
Well, while I don't consider myself an evangelist, it occurs to me that this usage of the word may be considered by evangelists, not as self-mockery, but as mockery against evangelists.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)