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The right-wing Christians have made this question more complicated, because they call themselves, "Christians." Period. We have seen great posts here on Salon in the past few days about this. e.g. Somebody asked for a Roman Catholic books at a "Christian" book store, and the clerk told her, "Oh, no. We don't have Catholic books. Only Christian books."
We need to work around their preposterous terminology. My suggestion is, "christianists," with a small c. All christianists are fundamentalists, but some fundamentalists, those who stay out of politics, are not christianists.
We need a term. "Evangelical" is not correct. It includes many nice human beings. No matter what we call them though, the christianists will continue to call themselves just plain, "Christians." They pronounce it in a distinctive way however. Sometimes you can use their pronunciation to distinguish them: They say, "Chrisssss-chun." Many S's, hissing. Sssssssnakey!
