Jewish - founded by Abraham about 4,000 years ago.
Hindu - developed in India around 1,500 B.C.
Buddhist - split from Hinduism. and was founded by Buddha, Prince Siddhartha Gautama of India, about 500 B.C.
Roman Catholic - Jesus Christ began the religion in the year 33.
Islamic - Mohammed started the religion in what is now Saudi Arabia around 600 A.D.
Eastern Orthodox - separated from Roman Catholicism around the year 1000.
Lutheran - founded by Martin Lu-ther, an ex-monk in the Catholic Church, in 1517.
Mennonites - started in the Netherlands in 1520.
Church of England (Anglican) - broke from the Church of Rome in 1534. Founded by King Henry VIII because the pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.
Presbyterian - founded when John Knox brought the teachings of John Calvin to Scotland in the year 1560.
Unitarian - developed in Europe in the 1500’s.
Congregationalist -. branched off from Puritanism in the early l600s in England.
Baptist – founded by John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1607.
Quakers – offshoot of Mennonites and began in 1650.
Methodist - founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.
Episcopalian - brought over from England, to the American colonies and formed a separate religion founded by Samuel Seabury in 1789.
Mormon (Latter-Day Saints) – founded Joseph Smith in Palmyra, N.Y., NOT Salt Lake City, in 1830.
Salva-tion Army -–founded by William Booth in London in 1865. (Yes, it’s a religious group, not just an organization that collects money in kettles on Christmas and serves dinners to the homeless.)
Christian Scientist - founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879.
Jehovah’s Witness - founded by Charles Taze Russell in Pennsylvania in the 1870s.
Pentecostal - started in the United States in 1901.
Amish - began in the 17th century and is an offshoot of the Mennonites.
Agnostic - profess an uncertainty or a skepticism about the existence of God or a Higher Being, original origin unknown.
Atheist - do not believe in the existence of God or any other higher
power. This country’s best-known atheist, Ma-dalyn Murray O’Hair. has not
been seen or heard from in several a years. According to her son, she has
disappeared without a trace. Original origin unknown.
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