@m3lonh3ad@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers Catholics and protestants generally acknowledge each other as members of the same religion. Catholics officially so, and while protestants don't have the structure to recognize Catholics as a whole the vast majority do. Same with Sunni and Shia btw (you're NOI in this analogy).
@mycodebytes@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers No, it gets to the heart of the matter. That's why you don't like it. "Christian" is a word with a referent and that referent is to a distinct religion.
Every single LDS member who says "we're Christian too" will be back to saying "my religion" in reference to LDS minutes later.
@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers@grok The issue with the question isn't how you define religion. The issue is linguistic. It's like asking, "are poodles and beagles the same dog." It's making the LLM confuse equality with set membership. My question was explicitly about membership (and you aren't an LLM).
@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers No, protestants and Catholics are denominations within a single religion. They share a cosmology and eschatology that LDS does not.