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Rade
So far we've gone from: By Christian, I meant Orthodox Christian, and by Orthodox I meant to exclude the single largest and one of the oldest sects of Christians in the world. Maybe it would help if you would avoid using the word Christian and Orthodox, because apparently your definitions don't really match up with what is commonly accepted in the English language.
When I say "Christian" I mean "someone who has salvational knowledge of Jesus Christ". Nothing less, nothing more. There are Catholics who have this sort of relationship. There are Catholics who do not. Just like there are Southern Baptists who do and those who do not. The same goes for most other denominations, though it could be argued that for some, the degree of theological deviation is so great as to preclude this sort of "salvational knowledge".
When I use the word "orthodox" I'm referring to doctrine only, not individuals. "Catholicism" as a set of theological statements, imho, departs in some very significant ways from Christianity as expressed in the Bible. So I can't consider it to be orthodox.
