Revengelical

Revengelical
 n.Note: A play on “Evangelical.” «Wasn’t it in Genesis (as Revengelicals follow the Old Testament pretty closely) that Moses was speaking with God over the fate of the “wicked” city Sodom and that if a whole 10 righteous people existed in the city that God would spare it? Apparently they think that there were less than that in all of New Orleans.» —“Revengelicals” by SM Crafting the Schism (Chicago, Illinois) Mar. 12, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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