Welcome back to Shemis Bopery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And first of all, I want to apologize for my voice. I think I'm losing it.

But second, I wanted to approach today the question of how to answer the question around are Catholics Christian?

And as a Catholic, obviously I think the answer to that is yes.

But I think I can give some basic principles to help both Catholics and Protestants who might be facing this question, either wondering

it as a Protestant or being confronted with it as a Catholic.

Recently, a Protestant YouTuber by the name of Marlon Wilson, whose show I've been on before,

asked his overwhelmingly Calvinist, I think, audience, if they considered Roman Catholics Christians.

There weren't a ton of people who replied,

but of those who did, fewer than half, were willing to say for sure that we were.

I asked Marlon his own views, and he actually argued Catholics were not Christians.

Now, if you're a Protestant Christian, you've probably never been in this situation.

I've never heard anyone ask are Methodist Christians, even though we might disagree about some important questions?

Unless, you know, they genuinely don't know what a Methodist is. But this happens frequently

enough by well-meaning ignorant Protestants that, in fact, while I was putting this video together,

a patron on my Patreon, shameless joe.com,

shared that when he told his own mother that he was going to become Catholic, she said just

kind of casually that he wouldn't be a Christian anymore. So today, as I sort of hinted,

I want to address two groups of people. Number one, Catholics to know better

how to react if you find yourself in this situation of somebody saying this to you. And number

two, Protestants, honestly, so you don't embarrass yourself by making these kind of claims without

having a better understanding of what you're talking about. And I want to say that in love,

honestly, before I address three ways, I think we should respond to the question, I want to talk about two ways that we shouldn't.

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