What is Christianity?

I'm not sure where you see the insulting approach. It has been my experience reading Jar's posts that he is always respectful of the other posters and I didn't see any exception with his opening post.I do know that some Christians sects don't consider other Christian sects to be Christians. For example I worked with some fundamentalist Christians who didn't consider Catholics to be Christians. They said that Catholics were all going to hell. What I never did figure out was that they also said that the way to salvation was to accept Jesus as your lord and savior. From what I can tell from going to catholic church and Catholic school in my youth is that this is precisely what Catholics believe. Of course they also pray to Mary and the saints but I think that god forgives these "sins".Anyway, the short version is that I think that Jar was simply asking for people not to use the "you are not a real Christian" argument. Of course I could be wrong, it happens.

I should have been more clear. I was using the word "argument" in this context:

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From: Argument Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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A fact or statement put forth as proof or evidence; a reason:

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Not in the sense of a discussion in which disagreement is expressed.

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Actually Catholics believe that works/deeds/sacraments get you to heaven, believe me I just recieved Confirmation (the sacrament) a month or two ago.

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Not having received confirmation recently I'll have to trust that you know what you are talking about. However, I was basing my understanding of Catholicism on the profession of faith said at mass.

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Do they pray to Mary and the other Saints, or do they ask Mary and the other Saints to interceed for them? TTBOMK, they do not ask either Mary or a Saint to forgive sins, but rather simply to Pray for them.

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You are correct the Catholics ask Mary to pray for them, they do not believe that Mary has any power to forgive sins. The sin I was referring to was the sin of praying to Mary. Many protestant faiths see this as idolatry.