Well, it's also the case that plenty of Christians don't believe in the resurrection. E.g from the UK:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/10/quarter-christia...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/10/quarter-christia...
However fact still remains that a huge number of people who consider themselves Christian do not believe in the resurrection, and that in itself makes it entirely reasonable to word things that way whether you agree that those people are Christian or not.