Fundagelical

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"Fundagelical" is a portmanteau of "Fundamentalist" and "Evangelical". It highlights the fact that Evangelical Christianity in the United States evolved from Fundamentalist Christianity and has much more in common with fundamentalism than it does with evangelical movements in the eighteenth or nineteenth century or with evangelicalism in Europe. The term first appeared on Usenet in the early 1990s, and simply seemed to be a used for convenience (so that the author would not have to repeatedly include "fundamentalists and evangelicals" in his phrasing.) It was adopted by participants in various Christian discussion forums and its meaning shifted to the one described above. From there, it spread to Christian-related blogs. The word was not very popular outside Christian blogs until the 2004 presidential elections in the United States, when the Guardian ran a widely-ridiculed article on the word, in which the article's author, John Sutherland, announced the word was "current in the blogosphere" which while technically true, carried the implication that the word was popular in the blogosphere, which was not true.