I currently attend a Generic Mainline Protestant Church regularly though I'm not much of a believer, and probably more educated than the average Christian since I've read a considerable number of Christian theological works besides the Bible. However, I too am reluctant to admit to people that I am a Christian because of the embarassment of all that misrepresentation, though I imagine it's easier to be a Christian on the US East Coast than the West Coast. Unfortunately, I've found a frustrating number of atheists to be as misinformed and bigoted towards Christians as many evangelicals are about Muslims. Alas, the extremes are far more exciting and controversial than the means and will doubtlessly continue to get more airtime.

I guess to many serious evangelical Christians my reluctance to own up to my religion at every opportunity is probably a serious sin. For the moment I hope that "they will know we are Christians by our love" might suffice in lieu of actively evangelizing since "Go and make disciples of all the nations" is one of my biggest philosophical problems with Christianity at the moment.