In honor of u/Tetartos_Ippeas I will occasionally repost from other fora to c/Conspiracies. This one is in light of a comment by u/no_ez.
This is expanded from an earlier post via my attempting to keep the most important details without imbalance (even though editorial decisions are unavoidable and the current list is Amerocentric).
- Constantine didn't like other Catholics and founded Roman ("Lateran") Catholics, 312.
- Roman Catholics under Damasus I and "antipope" Ursinus I didn't like each other and were briefly two churches, 366-367.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Nestorius whose church got called Church of the East, 424.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Cyril of Alexandria whose church got called Oriental Orthodox, 451.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Abraham I whose church got called Armenian Apostolic, 607.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Michael I whose church got called Eastern Orthodox, 1056.
- Roman Catholics under Innocent II and "antipope" Anacletus II didn't like each other and were briefly two churches, 1130-1138.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Peter Waldo whose church got called Waldensians ("Huguenots"), 1215.
- Roman Catholics under Urban VI and "antipope" Clement VII didn't like each other and were briefly two churches, 1378-1417.
- Roman Catholics didn't like John Wyclif whose church got called Lollards, 1381.
- Roman Catholics under Gregory XII, "antipope" Benedict XIII, and "antipope" Alexander V didn't like each other and were briefly three churches, 1409-1417.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Jan Hus whose church got called Moravians ("Hussites"), 1415.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Martin Luther whose church got called Lutherans ("Evangelicals"), 1521.
- Lutherans didn't like Conrad Grebel whose church got called Anabaptists, 1525.
- Lutherans didn't like Huldrych Zwingli whose church got called Zwinglians ("Calvinists"), 1529.
- Henry VIII didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Anglicans ("Episcopals"), 1534.
- Menno Simons didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Mennonites, 1536.
- Shimun VIII didn't like Church of the East so Roman Catholics founded Chaldean ("Malabar") Catholics for him, 1553.
- John Knox didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Presbyterians, 1560.
- Anglicans didn't like Richard Fitz and John Browne whose church got called Congregationalists ("Brownists", "Independents", "United Church of Christ"), 1567.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Gaspar van der Heyden, Jean Tan, and Joannes Polyander, whose church got called Reformed, 1571.
- Anglicans didn't like Henry Barrow and John Greenwood whose church got called Separatists ("Barrowists", "Pilgrims"), 1587.
- Anglicans didn't like John Smyth whose church got called Baptists, 1607.
- Johann van Oldenbarnevelt didn't like Calvinists and founded Remonstrants ("Arminians"), 1610.
- Henry Jacob didn't like Anglicans and founded Calvinist ("Particular", "Reformed") Baptists, 1616.
- Anglicans didn't like Hamlet Jackson and Dorothy Traske whose church got called Seventh Day Baptists, 1616.
- Congregationalists didn't like Roger Williams whose church got called American Baptists, 1638.
- Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard didn't like Anglicans and founded Levellers ("Diggers"), 1649.
- Anglicans didn't like George Fox whose church got called Friends ("Quakers"), 1650.
- Paul Palmer didn't like other Baptists and founded Free Will Baptists, 1702.
- Alexander Mack didn't like Roman Catholics and founded German Baptists ("Church of the Brethren"), 1708.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Jakob Ammann whose church got called Amish, 1712.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Cornelius Steenoven and Dominique Varlet whose church got called Old Catholics ("Independent Catholics"), 1724.
- Eastern Orthodox didn't like Cyril VI so Roman Catholics founded Melkite Greek Catholics for him, 1729.
- Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine didn't like other Presbyterians and founded Associate Reformed Presbyterians ("United Secession Church", "United Free Church"), 1733.
- Anba Athanasius briefly didn't like Eastern Orthodox so Roman Catholics founded Coptic Catholics for him, 1741.
- Thomas Nairn didn't like Presbyterians and founded Reformed Presbyterians ("Covenanters"), 1743.
- Other Baptists didn't like George Whitefield whose church got called Second Baptist ("Separate Baptists"), 1743.
- James and Jane Wardley didn't like Quakers and founded Believers ("Shakers"), 1747.
- John Wesley didn't like Anglicans and founded Methodists ("Wesleyans"), 1784.
- Martin Boehm didn't like Mennonites and Philip Otterbein didn't like Reformed, and they founded United Brethren, 1800.
- Barton Stone didn't like Presbyterians and founded Churches of Christ, 1803.
- Methodists didn't like Hugh Bourne and William Clowes whose church got called Primitive Methodists, 1807.
- Presbyterians didn't like Thomas Campbell whose church got called Disciples of Christ, 1809.
- Anthony Groves didn't like Anglicans and founded Plymouth ("Open") Brethren, 1825.
- Quakers didn't like each other, and their churches got called Orthodox Quakers ("Friends United Meeting") and Hicksite Quakers ("Friends General Conference"), 1827.
- Reformed didn't like Samuel Frohlich whose church got called Apostolic Christians ("Evangelical Baptists", "New Anabaptists"), 1830.
- Lutherans didn't like Johann Scheibel whose church got called Wisconsin Synod ("Independent Evangelical", "Old") Lutherans, 1832.
- Reformed didn't like Hendrik de Cock whose church got called Christian Reformed, 1834.
- Other Lutherans didn't like Carl Walther whose church got called Missouri Synod Lutherans, 1839.
- David Welsh, Thomas Chalmers, and Robert Candlish didn't like Presbyterians and founded Free Church of Scotland, 1843.
- Albany Conference didn't like Baptists and founded Adventists ("First-Day"), 1845.
- William Johnson didn't like other American Baptists and founded Southern Baptists, 1845.
- John Wilbur didn't like Friends United and founded Conservative Friends ("Wilburite Quakers"), 1847.
- John Darby didn't like Open Brethren and founded Exclusive ("Darbyist") Brethren, 1848.
- Methodists didn't like James Everett, William Griffith, and Samuel Dunn, whose church got called United Methodist ("Reform"), 1849.
- Gilbert Cranmer didn't like Adventists and founded Church of God (Seventh Day), 1858.
- Southern Baptists didn't like James Graves whose church got called Landmark Baptists ("Bride"), 1859.
- Other Methodists didn't like Benjamin Roberts whose church got called Free Methodists, 1860.
- Jonathan Cummings didn't like Adventists and founded Advent Christians, 1860.
- Ellen White didn't like other Adventists and founded Seventh-Day Adventists, 1863.
- William and Catherine Booth didn't like Methodist Reform and founded Salvation Army, 1865.
- George Hoffman didn't like United Brethren and founded United Christians, 1877.
- German Baptists didn't like Samuel Kinsey whose church got called Old German Baptists, 1881.
- German Baptists didn't like Henry Holsinger whose church got called Brethren Church, 1882.
- Baptists didn't like Richard Spurling whose church got called Church of God ("Cleveland"), 1886.
- Charles Spurgeon didn't like other Baptists and founded Independent ("Fundamental") Baptists, 1887.
- Albert Simpson didn't like Presbyterians and founded Christian and Missionary Alliance, 1887.
- Donald MacFarlane didn't like Free Church of Scotland and founded Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, 1893.
- William McAlpine, William Simmons, and Bishop Johnson didn't like other American Baptists and founded National Baptists, 1895.
- Charles Parham didn't like Methodists and founded Apostolic Faith ("Assemblies of God"), 1895.
- Joseph Widney and Phineas Bresee didn't like Methodists and founded Church of the Nazarene, 1895.
- Baptists didn't like Charles Jones and Charles Mason whose church got called Church of God in Christ, 1896.
- Benjamin Young, Benjamin Irwin, and Abner Crumpler didn't like Methodists and founded Fire Baptized Holiness ("Pentecostal Holiness"), 1896.
- Southeastern Kansas Fire Baptized Holiness Association didn't like Fire Baptized Holiness and founded Bible Holiness ("Wesleyan Fire Baptized Holiness"), 1898.
- Nicholas Tolstoy didn't like Eastern Orthodox so Roman Catholics founded Russian Catholics for him, 1905.
- William Fuller didn't like Fire Baptized Holiness and founded Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God, 1908.
- James Wedgwood didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Liberal Catholics, 1917.
- Karel Farsky didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Czechoslovak Hussites, 1920.
- Watson Sorrow and Hugh Bowling didn't like Pentecostal Holiness and founded Congregational Holiness, 1921.
- Aimee Semple McPherson didn't like Assemblies of God and founded Foursquare, 1923.
- Union Bible College and Oregon Yearly Meeting didn't like Friends United and founded Central Friends and Evangelical Friends, 1926.
- Geevarghese Ivanos didn't like Eastern Orthodox so Roman Catholics founded Malankara Catholics for him, 1930.
- Baptist Bible Union didn't like other American Baptists and founded Regular Baptists, 1932.
- Seventh-Day Adventists didn't like Victor Houteff whose church got called Davidians, 1934.
- Herbert Armstrong didn't like Church of God (Seventh Day) and founded Grace Communion International ("Worldwide"), 1934.
- Gresham Machen didn't like other Presbyterians and founded Orthodox Presbyterians, 1936.
- Carl McIntire, Oliver Buswell, and Allan MacRae didn't like Orthodox Presbyterians and founded Bible Presbyterians, 1937.
- Louis Bauman and Charles Ashman didn't like German Baptists and founded Grace Brethren ("Charis"), 1939.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Carlos Duarte Costa whose church got called Brazilian Catholic Apostolic, 1945.
- Liberal Catholics didn't like other Liberal Catholics and founded Liberal Catholics International, 1947.
- Hilmer Sandine didn't like other Congregationalists and founded Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, 1948.
- Roman Catholics didn't like Michel Collin whose church got called Apostles of Infinite Love, 1951.
- Harry Johnson didn't like other Congregationalists and founded National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, 1955.
- Glenn Griffith didn't like Church of the Nazarene and founded Bible Missionary, 1955.
- Benjamin Roden didn't like other Davidians and founded Branch Davidians, 1955.
- Toma Darmo didn't like Church of the East and founded Ancient Church of the East, 1964.
- Chuck Smith didn't like Foursquare and founded Calvary Chapel, 1968.
- Marcel Lefebvre didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Society of Saint Pius X, 1970.
- North American Christian Convention didn't like Disciples of Christ and founded Independent Christians, 1971.
- Jack Williamson didn't like other Presbyterians and founded Presbyterian Church in America, 1973.
- William Kohn didn't like Missouri Synod Lutherans and founded Evangelical Lutherans, 1976.
- Clemente Dominguez y Gomez didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Palmarian Catholics, 1978.
- Calvary Chapel didn't like John Wimber whose church got called Vineyard, 1982.
- Clarence Kelly didn't like Society of Saint Pius X and founded Society of Saint Pius V, 1983.
- Francesco Ricossa didn't like Society of Saint Pius X and founded Institute of the Mother of Good Counsel, 1985.
- Alexander Murray didn't like Free Presbyterians and founded Associated Presbyterians, 1989.
- Roman Catholics didn't like George Stallings whose church got called African-American Catholics, 1990.
- David Bawden didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Conclavists, 1990.
- John Whitcomb didn't like other Grace Brethren and founded Conservative Grace Brethren, 1992.
- Lucian Pulvermacher didn't like Roman Catholics and founded True Catholics, 1998.
- Mike Bickle didn't like Vineyard and founded International House of Prayer, 1999.
- Free Church of Scotland didn't like Free Church Defence Association whose church got called Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), 2000.
- WordAlone Network didn't like Evangelical Lutherans and founded Lutheran Congregations, 2001.
- Robert Nemkovich didn't like Old Catholics and founded Polish National Catholics, 2003.
- Oscar Michaelli didn't like Roman Catholics and founded Catholic Apostolic Remnant, 2006.
- Paull Spring didn't like Evangelical Lutherans and founded North American Lutherans, 2010.
- Keith Boyette didn't like United Methodists and founded Global Methodists, 2022.
- Laurent Mbanda didn't like other Anglicans and founded Global Anglicans, 2025.
This leaves out movements, including both cults, and movements like evangelical and born-again; it also leaves out much that could be said (including lateral transfers, mergers, and dissolutions), but I'm trying to focus on schisms that are close to the trunk.
And how do you know which is true and which one isn't?
What is this post aimed at anyway? That a lot of satan's powers focus mostly on Christianity? That literally proves that Christianity is correct in comparison to all other religions...
Where are the major ones? Jesuits, Masons, Rosicrucians?
All the 100+ I listed have IMHO enough claims on truth to be pedigreed. I believe that any formal theological disagreement among any of them can be resolved into unity on essentials, liberty on nonessentials, charity in all (many more semantic questions are nonessential than we realize). The post is so that we're aware of our pedigrees and so that there's clear information that is compiled by the same objective standards.
If you see satanism in it, I don't. I omitted suborders, movements, and infiltrators deliberately. The Society of Jesus is fully part of the Roman Catholics (not a split) so either it shows itself redeemed or it falls just like any other work arising within the body. Freemasonry is an ecumenical movement, and Rosicrucianism is a gnostic movement, that never pretended to be or to come from denominations. The major cults (to pick on JW and LDS as examples) are not denominations of Christianity but objectively distinguishable from them. There are a couple splits that originated as cults but have been overcome by evangelization and recast themselves completely (to pick on SDA and GCI as examples), so I give them credit for the present but not necessarily the past.
Also, it's possible to list 100 sects of Judaism or of Islam, but I don't find it worth my interest to go beyond a few main divisions. Yes, Christianity is over target, and is the most often so, but satan hates Abrahamic religions just because they hang out close to us, and hates any pursuit of truth ultimately for the same reason.
Hope that answers your questions!
Is it? How so? There's no conclusion in your post.
Then you don't understand it.
Any division is a denomination. You just use this word for splitting of the church, which is also demonic.
Again, how would you recognize a real enemy there?
Oh, really? How sad for you...
Just say you can't, buddy.
After all I heard you say in the past, you're all - all talk and no game. You really talk too much, when you shouldn't.
I'll wait for this list of 100 sects of Judaism first. Or make 100 sects of Islam first. (I know that you won't, but it's so nice to mock you...)
Whenever you're ready, pal. I'll wait.
I didn't intend a conclusion: it was a historical record without a judgment other than framing each division cattily in the language of dislike. I basically included divisions where two groups of professed Christians disagreed but both have continuation today, and excluded other events.
Huh?
Again, at some point I appear to have gotten on your bad side and haven't pinned down why. Do you think I misled you about something in relation to how to moderate a religiously unaligned forum? Do you think my means of fighting the satanic enemy are somehow compromised because of some inaction or incompletion on my part that perhaps you could correct (but don't)?
Of course satan is at work and can be counted on to infiltrate any major branch of the tree. It is probable that one or more of these hundred is so totally satanic as to be uprooted in the future, but the objective standard of compilation is that Jesus hasn't uprooted them so far.
But there are reasons for these divisions, as there are for older ones in the Bible, and this helps us think about those reasons. Paul and Peter divided by broad agreement, Paul and Barnabas divided by sharp disagreement, but also agreement to disagree. If satan was involved it's not stated and we are left with the illustration that God had his purposes for these.
You want to talk about a different subject, enemy recognition? I'm all for it but I believe it should happen cautiously. An "enemy-recognizer of one" may be objective enough but is also likely to fail to obtain broad acceptance for his recognition. And, when it happens within the church, "enemy recognition" is in fact division .... Often it's done cleanly (excommunication of Arius, position papers against Joseph Smith), and often messily (Great Schism, which both churches apologized for 911 years later). Clean enemy recognition is not the scope of this post. It's certainly in the scope of Conspiracies but beyond my general statement "it's the satanists" I have very few people that I judge, and then for behavior (enmity) rather than person (enemy).
You want the other religions for some reason as if you doubt I mean what I say; I have time, and it's also good to see in a comment in this post. The argument that "Christianity is over target which is why it's so infiltrated and split" is good, but Judaism and Islam are close to target and the same thing happens to them, and that's an ordinary high-school comparative religion observation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_religious_movements&oldid=1309467997
Rabbinic, Sadducee, Nazarene, Karaite, Haymanot (5); Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Italian, Romaniote (5); Hasidic, Lithuanian, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstruction, Communal, Haredi, Zionist, Anti-Zionist (10); Crypto-Judaism (13); Beta Israel, Crimean, Igbo, Subbotnik (4); Black, Jewish Science, Humanist, Carlebach, Jewish Renewal, Conservadox, Kabbalah Centre, Lev Tahor, Open Orthodox, Burqa, Messianic, Baal Teshuva (12); Havurah, Independent, IFR, Day School, Keshet, Bnei Noah (6); Seminaries (6); Hasidic dynasties (14); Misnagdim, Musar, Sephardic Haredi, Dor Daim, Edah HaChareidis, Neturei Karta, Modern Orthodox (7); that's 82 in one article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Jewish_communities_by_country&oldid=1312062347
Ashkenazi subgroups (8); Sephardi subgroups (5); Italkim, San Nicandro, Juhurim, Gruzim, Krymchak (5); North African (7); West Asian (8); Bilad el-Sudan, Lemba, South African, Sao Tome (4); Asian (14); American (6); that's 57 in a second article. I recall seeing more than that before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islam_branches_and_schools..png
I count 52 groups in this graphic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islamic_schools_and_branches&oldid=1311681059
All-Illahi, Bahai (2); Sunni schools (8); Salafi, Wahhabi, Ahle Hadith, Jafari, Usuli, Akhbari, Ismaili, Zaydi (8); Kalam, Ashari, Maturidi, Athari, Mutazila, Murjiah, Qadariyyah, Jabriyah, Jahmiyya, Batiniyyah (10); Azeemiyya, Kubrawiya, Mouride, Nimatullahi, Noorbakshia, Senussi (6); Darul Islam, IPNA, MIB, MANA, Ansaaru Allah (5); Black (6); Ahmadiyya, Lahore Ahmadiyya, Barelvi, Deobandi, Gulen, Modern Salafi, Islamism (7); Islamist movements (3); Quranism, Liberal, Progressive, Mahdavia, Nondenominational (5); that's 60, having deleted repetitions with the graphic.
For any single entries with plural numbers, the requisite list of subgroups appears in the stable link given. Obviously that very quick review might still contain repetitions, but it demonstrates that there are at least 100 divisions in Islam and Judaism. (I still doubt it was worth my interest.) You didn't think they were monoliths, did you?
Add: It's been called to my attention that I didn't make clear that there are 82+57=139 distinct Jewish denominations and 52+60=112 distinct Muslim denominations listed, either directly or by reference to the stable links, or 111 Muslims if an unnoticed (but anticipated) dual reference to "Quranism" is taken singly rather than doubly. Obviously the second list of Muslims excluded all noticed repetitions of the second article against the first list of Muslims. I trust this elision of simple math doesn't defeat the purpose of the listing. It probably bears stating for completeness that there is some overlap among these, but they are all distinct movements and denominations in exactly the same methodology the estimate of 30,000 Christian denominations is calculated. Quibbles can be made, but I did state in advance that pinning down details would be boring.
Not a hundred as you said?
Shame...