Denominations are a funny thing, GUEST, 13 Apr 04 - 05:42 PM. They have a habit of multiplying when people within them can't agree on how their own members should behave. My favorite example of this is the two Lutheran churches that sit side by side next to each other just outside of the town of Accident, Maryland, USA. People got to squabbling about who was doing a better job of complying with whatever the rules were for being a good Lutheran, and they split into two factions (and now two different Synods) and that was that.

In organized religion, there is far more control, or at least efforts at control, within the religion or the denomination than efforts to control outsiders.