When you say that my dearest Catholic friend, the exnun, the woman who spends time every day with my dying neighbor so her caregiver can get away a little, the woman who cares so deeply for others and for her Lord and Savior is going to not have life and forgiveness from the Savior we both talk to is ridiculous and wrong.
She and I discuss scripture, not her church, and she knows her triune God and scripture well. Others, right here on cc talk about all sorts of isms, men, and ideas they believe in that are not from God and scripture. All of see darkly, the bible says so. Christ says do you love me? May I forgive your sins? Will you forgive others? Do you live in my kingdom? Not are you or are you not Catholic.
Judging should be taken up with whether they express love or hate, for by that we test the spirits. Is their talk of scripture or a man's ideas? Our Father is now sending the Jews back to Jerusalem. Most of those returning don't have a clue that God is sending them back or why, but they are going back. Those who do not know God but are working for the other side, at this time in our world, works against that happening. There are ways of testing the spirit that is in the people around us. But to ask if they are protestant or Catholic is not the proper question.
However, questioning the ideas of this church is proper. I do not think a lot of their ideas of God are sound at all.