The choice of nomenclature was absolutely intentional.
Most “evangelical” types see anyone and everyone else as heretics at best and heathen at worse and cannot be bothered to learn even a smidgen of ecclesiastical history.
They think that “true Christianity” began with their sect’s founder.
Credited to Emo Phillips:
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.”
I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
Interesting response in light of the thread discussing torture and murder of Baptists. I might give it a try myself the next time there’s a thread on, say, a Catholic being disappeared by the CCP. I’ll chime in and say “the damn filthy papists think they have a monopoly on salvation,” or maybe I’ll say “that’s what you get for worshipping a statue LOL losers.”
Actually, it is the basic gospel (versus baptism itself making one a Christian, much less as an infant) and other distinctive teachings (such as espoused as dogma in Catholicism) which are not manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels) that basically differentiates btwn a true church verse a false one.
In the West, traditional conservative evangelicals who most strongly esteem the Bible as the supreme authoritative and accurate word of God (and thus evangelize) have long testified to being the most unified conservative major religious group in America, thus voting 80% for Trump, and even Romney (and would for Putin, if he would uphold the US constitution, but which he opposes), - despite formal organic divisions, and 3 fundamental areas of disagreement (predestination, Pentecostal gifts, eschatology.
Meanwhile, polls of Russians find most are nominally orthodox, and only marginally more opposed (48 percent) than the non-Orthodox/nonbelievers (46 percent).