man i will forever be scarred with that day when my mexican twitch viewer asked me
“uh ok so you are protestant…”
“do you guys believe in God?”
“and Jesus?”

another thing that shocked me about that mexican twitch viewer is that he called himself a “catholic”, not “christian”
i thought labeling protestants as christians and Catholics as catholics was something that only Korean protestants engaged in, to push catholicism to the margins
i thought catholics in latin america wouold call themselves “christians”
and give some label to protesttants.. the usual one seems to be “evangelicals”
but why is that mexican catholic guy calling himself “catholic” instead of “christian”
and he got confused when I didn’t adopt that “christian” label, which I did not adopt out of respect to catholics

> that always confused me as well, cuz the catholic church was the og christian church in the west

yeah there’s that historical precedent too
but in latin america, catholicism is the mainstream religion
the “default” religion if you don’t have anything else going for you
so why would latin american catholics not lay claim to the “christian” label?