Tbf, I don’t consider the Mormons to be Christians either. But, my opinion of the mainstream Religious Right isn’t all that much higher than my opinion of the Mormons.
And nothing infuriates both groups involved in a Christian interchurch conflict more, when one or both are a particularly oddball sect, than referring to both groups as just “Protestants” and talking about it the way you’d talk about two different Baptist congregations having a spat over some minor day to day matter rather than a meaningful theological conflict.
Tbf, I don’t consider the Mormons to be Christians either. But, my opinion of the mainstream Religious Right isn’t all that much higher than my opinion of the Mormons.
And nothing infuriates both groups involved in a Christian interchurch conflict more, when one or both are a particularly oddball sect, than referring to both groups as just “Protestants” and talking about it the way you’d talk about two different Baptist congregations having a spat over some minor day to day matter rather than a meaningful theological conflict.