Is it any wonder there are over 1,000 branches of
> christianity.
>
> Mike Vaujin
> movaujin@stpete.honeywell.com
>
> The first great step towards progress, iis, for man to cease to
be th slave of man; the second, to cease to be the slave of the
monsters of his own creation. --Robert Ingersoll
Actually, there are closer to 200,000 different christian sects
around the world.
April>>
DAR
Did you perhaps mean 20,000 here April?:
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According to the WORLD CHRISTIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA: A
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS IN
THE MODERN WORLD AD 1900-2000, by David Barrett (Oxford,
1982) Christianity presently has 150 major eccelsiastical traditions and
20,800 distinct denominations, dioceses, jurisdictions, missions,
assemblies, and fellowships.
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cheers,
Darrel
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"To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know
that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and
cannot exist--all this is but the beginning of wisdom." --Robert G.
Ingersoll