If you belong to the Church
of England,
King Henry VIII founded your
religion in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce
with the right to re-marry.
If you are a Protestant Episcopalian,
your religion was an offshoot
of the Church of England, founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies
in the 17th century.
If you are a Congregationalist,
your religion was originated
by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.
If you are a Methodist,
your religion was launched by
John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.
If you are Unitarian,
Theophilus Lindley founded your
church in London in 1774.
If you are Mormon (Latter
Day Saints),
Joseph Smith started your religion
in Palmyra, N.Y. in 1829.
If you are a Baptist,
you owe the tenets of your religion
to John Smyth, who launched in Amsterdam in 1606.
If you are the Dutch Reformed
Church,
you recognize Michaelis Jones
as founder, because he originated your religion in N.Y. in 1628.
If you worship with the Salvation
Army,
your sect began with William
Booth in London in 1865.
If you are Christian Scientist,
you look to 1879 as the year
in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
If you belong to one of the religious
organizations known as "Church of the Nazarene", "Pentecostal
Gospel", "Jehovah’s Witness",
your religion is one of the hundreds
of new sects founded by men within the past fifty years.
If you are a Roman Catholic,
you know that Jesus Christ the
Son of God founded your religion in the year 33, and that it has not changed
since that time.
Even today, the above-enumerated facts are still undeniable.