Ping me their names, I'll be happy to tell them personally that they're wrong. A devout Baptist is certainly a Christian whether they like it or not.
Though I suspect if you did a poll, you'd find about 10X as many "evangelicals" denying that Catholics are Christians, than vice versa.
95% of the Catholics I've met have no problem accepting all mainstream Orthodox and Protestant denominations are Christian.
“95% of the Catholics I’ve met have no problem accepting all mainstream Orthodox and Protestant denominations are Christian.”
Well, those 95% of Catholics you have met are much more charitable than I am. There are a number of “mainstream Protestant” denominations that I think are open to question. I have sat in some of them. I’d go back if they would show me an annotated Bible, with all the parts they no longer believe lined out and the new things they now believe added in with underlining. I know you will find a vast number of writings of Paul they reject and I fear that there are a number of words of Christ, Himself, that they are ashamed of.
Their ears seem to itch for preachers to tell them comfortable things. I think I read something like that somewhere.
Here's your chance; for both Prots and Catholics are in this thread.
What you suspect is suspect. And as for polls, we do have this:
Globally 98% of evangelical leaders agree that the Bible is the word of God. Only 3% believe that human life has evolved with no involvement from a supreme being, and 47% reject theistic evolution, while 41% believe God has used evolution for the purpose of creating humans and other life. http://www.pewforum.org/2011/06/22/global-survey-of-evangelical-protestant-leaders/
51% do not see influence of Catholicism as a threat, while 35% see it as a minor threat, and 10% see it as a major one. 92% express favorable opinions of Pentecostals, and 76% express favorable opinions of Catholics. 7% say they consider non-religious people to be friendly toward evangelicals, and 35% say they have a very unfavorable opinion of atheists, with 35%saying mostly unfavorable. ^
33% describe themselves as Pentecostals, versus 14% of leaders from the Global North. 76% say they have experienced or witnessed a divine healing, and 70% of those from the Global South say they have witnessed the devil or evil spirits being driven out. ^
90% reject the so-called prosperity gospel, the notion that God will grant wealth and good health to those who have enough faith. 52% (75% in the “Global South”) believe drinking alcohol is incompatible with being a good evangelical, 97% likewise reject astrology, 96% reject reincarnation, 95% reject denying Jesus is the only way to salvation, 92% reject yoga. ^
95% of the Catholics I've met have no problem accepting all mainstream Orthodox and Protestant denominations are Christian.
But we never seem to see you on the RF here, and your RC acquaintances` must reject the historical teaching on Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Catholic church there is no salvation) to hold that 95% view.