how come a an evangelic is a christian n' a catholic is not?

Question

since Jesus's supreme comanment of loving everyone, I do feel strongly is a talk down once I've told 'em I'm catholic, but they keep
telling me to embrace Jesus as their lord n' savioir. I guess none
has a copywrite of that word. Isn't it?

Answer 1

I would venture to say that non-liturgical (non-denominational, evangelical) Christians are the LEAST educated people in the Western world about the history of Christianity and the family tree of Christianity.

Just keep patiently pointing them to things like this:

http://www.uri.org/Christian_Family_Tree.html

Answer 2

They both are, dude. An Evangelical is a Protestant. Protestantism grew out of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. Both are Christians.
In fact, there are other types of Christians other than Protestants and Catholics. For example, Eastern Orthodox Christianity which includes Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox. These are the byzantine churches.
Oriental Orthodox Christianity is yet another form of Christianity, including Syrian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Coptic Orthodox. They are sometimes referred to as monophysite churches.
Not to mention some other more obscured groups like Thomist Christians, Celtic Orthodox, and Assyrian Church of the East.

Many Protestant fundamentalists are blissfully unaware of church history. Saying Evangelical = Christian, while Catholics are not, is a partisan argument. Kind of like saying a patriotic citizen is someone who supports the Republicans... which, by this partisan definition, means that those who support the Democrats are unpatriotic.

Answer 3

Most non-Catholic Christian denominations accept Catholics as Christians. A very few do not.

A dictionary would say that a Christian is someone professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.

Catholics would fit this definition.

In the Nicene creed, from 325 A.D., Catholics profess:

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father.

Through Him all things were made.

For us and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.

For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried.

On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We are baptized as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28:19, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."

We truly are spiritually "born again," we just don't usually use those words.

With love in Christ.