Originally posted by popcornbird
How many sects are there in Christianity? I always knew there were several, but I didn't know they differ so much.
I would be interesting to know, but I am not sure it would be possible to count.

Even within Catholic, there is Roman, and Eastern Orthodox. Some catholic churches are very traditionalist and others are more "modern" . And that is true of any christian religion.
My ex-boyfriend could only go to Baptist churches that belonged to the Council of Regular Baptist churches ( or a name similiar to that).
I have two friends who both go to fundalmentalist churches and their beliefs are almost indentical, expect that one friend believes in speaking in tongues, the other does not. Tothe non-tongues speaking friend, that is a major point and she would not consider dating someone on that point alone.