Of course language is constantly changing!
The first time I saw \"evangelist\" used in geekdom was to describe Chris DiBona's job at a SiliValley linux company whose name I have forgotten (LinuxCare? VA Linux perhaps? It wasn't SUSE.). It must have been around 1996. The linux geeks felt they were spreading good news about a better system and I don't think anyone ever thought they were being offensive. Of that pioneering group, my son was Orthodox and Chris DiBona was Roman Catholic.
We grumbled when Microsoft co-opted \"icon,\" but it has paradoxically made it easier to explain the concept of religious icons to non-Orthodox.
As Heraclitus put it, \"All is flux.\"
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