What I object to is the use of the word appologist. The word appologist is generally used in a negative setting. The individual was an appologist for "insert the negative person or subject matter here".
I just don't include Christianity in a category that needs an appologist. It may need a proponent or and advocate, but an appologist. I don't think so.
I see this as a couched insult to the gentleman in question.
Google "define:apologetics" and you see as the first entry:
The term apologetics comes from the Greek apologia, which means "defense" or "answer." Apologetics is the task of defending a particular idea or belief system and answering its critics. The origin of the concept of apologetics lies in the beginnings of Christianity. Between the second and fourth century, a number of Christian teachers wrote defenses of Christianity against pagan critics.
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologist for a reasonable definition. It is a quite common term actually. I consider myself a Christian apologist in training.
Apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position. Someone who engages in apologetics is called an apologist.The term comes from the Greek word apologia (Ἀðïëïãίá), meaning the defense of a position against an attack, not from the English word apology, which is exclusively understood as a defensive plea for forgiveness for an action that is open to blame. ...