WOW! Back up to 41,000!
Of course the site noted above includes all the different little sectlets found under the broad umbrella of Rome.
The "seclets" of Rome? You mean the "seclets" of Father Martin Luther.
I just saw the "Other Bolyn Girl" on the tube the other night. Henry VIII dumped the Catholic Church because it wouldn't let him marry his mistress. Do you remember the rhyme regarding Henry's wives?
Divorced
Beheaded
Died
Divorced
Beheaded
Survived.
Hard not to remember that little rhyme. It reminds me of WHY there are so many "seclets" of Rome: men like Henry.
41,000 is a made up number that keeps growing with the retelling.
Our manual of denominations in the Army Chaplaincy had a couple hundred maybe, and we had a legitimate reason for having information on denominations since we had to deal with them regularly.
Were one to try to find a list of “the 41,000” it would be a lot like Taze Russell’s 144,000, known only to the prophet himself.