@SavoirFaire and @JLeslie, I find that it’s ultimately pointless to engage in questions about who truly counts as a member of a religious sect… because everyone has a different definition of what counts.
I don’t consider myself a Jew. But many Jews (to my eternal anger) would, because I was born of a Jewish vagina and have the magic Jew mitochondrial DNA or whatever.
Mormons consider themselves Christians, but many other Christians consider Mormons heretics.
Muslims, in a way, consider themselves Christians, in that they regard Christ as a prophet who ought to be followed. Most Christians would obviously not consider Muslims to be Christians.
The question of who is a “real Christian” is further compounded by the fact that, according to Christians, it’s pretty damn important to be in this club.
For my part, I think Catholics are Christians. And this is only because I define the word “Christian” in the following way: someone who believes Jesus died and came back to life for some manner of salvific effect. I think this is a nice, neutral definition—not too narrow, not too broad. But obviously definitions vary, and getting Christians to agree on a definition of “true Christian” is like herding cats.