as someone that grew up in the South and was surrounded by evangelicals, Catholics were seen as weird/possibly satanic, depending on the person, and not really Christians because of the saints and Mary worship. They’re polytheistic since they don’t just focus on Jesus Christ.

Growing up in a “non-denominational”, independent fundamental Baptist house I was always taught that Catholics weren’t Christians because they worship idols. Now that I’ve left the faith I would easily classify them as being Christian.

While I think many people actually do classify them as Christians they do have some significant differences in their beliefs and practices than most Protestant denominations; and being themselves the largest Christian denomination by far it can be useful in some analysis to treat them as a distinct entity (the answer to “percentage of global population that subscribe to a particular religion” is much more interesting when broken into “Christian Catholic: %” and “Christian Other: %”).

The Christians are just whiny Catholics. Protesting all day.

You are correct, Catholics are a subset of Christianity… But similarly how people assume a “doctor” is a medical practitioner, Christians has become the informal name for “Protestant” or “evangelicals”

Basically “Christians” tend to mean, anything not “Catholic” (which is old school, visibly indistinguible from others in the Christendom)

I’ve never heard someone say this.

Discrimination and division are like 99% of what religion is about.

Jesse, WTF are you talking about

I’ve never heard the phrase Catholic and Christians before. Catholic vs Protestant maybe.

The same can be asked about the Mormons. It’s Christians who have a weird obsession with deciding who gets to be Christian.

For me, if they believe in the divinity of Christ, they’re Christian.

Catholics aren’t Christians by many definitions, it is a different religion.