Catholics Aren't Christians?

[Alex K]

Exactly my point, without the roman church, almost no one in Europe and by extension America would have ever heard of this Christ thing. With a bit of luck, it would now be considered an obscure side branch of Judaism for gentiles, maybe vanished and forgotten like hundreds of other cults that were practised in the roman empire. The roman church may be the evangelicals' estranged parent, but it is their parent.

The problem with them is that the protestant type see them as some other worshiper of another god when the fact of the matter is they believe in the same thing. They will even shame some Catholics into admitting they're not really Christians. They don't even see that they both believe in the same Abrahamic god with some caveats.

In Germany, the association of protestant and Lutheran "evangelical" churches of Germany EKD has relatively close cooperation with the catholic church, with such things as joint "ecumenical" services for certain occasions. The only thing they absolutely refuse to do is a joint eucharist,because of technical details about what part of the wine exactly turns into Jesus and how much. It would be considered an absurd proposition that they do not both belong to Christianity.