Call me a Christian, please

Every time I turn around lately, I seem to hear a politician, anchorman or radio talk-show host making references to 'people of faith.' Sometimes they're referring to Christians. But it's usually just a carte blanche reference to anyone who subscribes to a religion. Doesn't matter what the content of the faith is, as long as it's 'faith' in something. As far as I know, it doesn't even have to be faith in a god. Don't want to offend anyone, right? But they are, after all, the world. So it's expected to hear one generic term applied in a one-size-fits-all way. What really has been getting to me is hearing evangelicals throwing the term around to apply to Christians. I ask: Why don't they use the term "Christians?" Wasn't that the original term applied in the Book of Acts to us? Or even during the Reformation, we were called "evangelicals," or "the gospelers." Do we also need to water down who we are? And now I am seeing how this backfires. If you search online for 'people of faith,' you'll see peopleoffaith.com, making reference to Christian things. And the Family Research Council. And you'll also find People of Faith Against the Death Penalty. And my personal favorite -- the "People of Faith Alliance," whose mission is to - as they say - "give voice and action to our conviction that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people have the same worth and wholeness as all people, and the right to just and equitable treatment." So I ask: Am I part of these 'people of faith?' Or the FRC 'people of faith?' Or the politicians' 'people of faith?' To all of it, I say: Call me a Christian, please. And nothing softer.