Going thru old notes I came across this from an Ann Landers article from
11/12/1996, which I thought was interesting - hope you all do too.
If you are a member of the Jewish faith, your religion was founded by Abraham
about 4000 years ago.
If you are Hindu your religion developed in India around 1500 BC
If you are Buddhist, your religion split from Hinduism and was founded by
Buddha, prince Siddhartha Guatama of India, abt 500 BC
If you are Roman Catholic, Jesus Christ began your religion in the year 33
If you are Islamic, Mohammed started your religion in what is now Saudi Arabia
around AD600.
If you are Eastern Orthodox, your sect separated from Roman Catholicism around
the year 1000.
If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by martin Luther, an ex-monk
in the Catholic church, in 1517.
If you belong to the Church of England (Anglican) your religion was founded by
King Henry VIII in the year 534 because the pope would not grant him a
divorce with the right to remarry.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded when John Knox brought
the teachings of John Calvin to Scotland in year 1560.
If you are Unitarian, your religious group developed in Europe in the 1500s.
If you are a Congregationalist, your religion branched off from Puritanism in
the early 1600s in England
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who
launched it in Amsterdam in 1607.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley
in England in 1744.
If you are Episcopalian, your religion was brought over from England to the
American colonies and formed a separate religion founded by Samuel Seabury in
1789.
If you are a Mormon (Latter-Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your church in
Palmyra, NY in 1830.
If you worship with the Salvation Army (yes, its a religious group too) your
sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year your religion
was founded by Mary Baker Eddy.
If you are a Jehovah's Witness your religion was founded by Charles Taze
Russell in Pennsylvania in the 1870s
If you are Pentecostal, your religion was started in the United States in 1901
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