Rob,

Yes, well it's a discussion worth having. Now, I see you've changed your position. You initially reacted to Evangelicals being aligned "against people of any sort." Your second comment reacts to Christians being "pitted against another Christian." Those are quite different positions. Naturally my disagreement is with the former. Perhaps a simple example will help: I take it we agree that the Pharisees of Jesus' day count as "people of (some) sort"? That much is obvious. But notice: Jesus spent considerable time disagreeing with the Pharisees. That is, he delineated his own teaching from theirs; he aligned "Christian" against "Pharisee" (with the caveat I noted above: "aligned against" means I reject what the other stands for, not that I don't long to see the other come to have a right relationship with Christ). But surely we could replace "Pharisee" with "Hindu" or "Muslim" or "atheist"? The point, then, is that Evangelicals believe things that just do distinguish us from others (our beliefs about Jesus' divinity, Scripture, etc), and to that extent we reject what the others believe. And they do the same (how many Muslims do you know who call themselves Christians?). This, of course, doesn't mean we hate or shun others, it simply highlights the reason why we have a different name.

Thus, your a priori rejection of anything that "aligns Christians against people of any sort" is, I think, untenable.