If you are a Lutheran, your religion was
founded in Germany, by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the Roman Catholic Church, in the year
1517.
If you are a Mennonite, your church began
in Switzerland, by Grebel, Mantz, and Blaurock, in the year 1525.
If you belong to the Church of England
(Anglican), your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in 1534, because the Pope could
not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion
was founded by John Knox, in Scotland, in the year 1560.
If you are a Congregationalist, your
religion was originated by Robert Brown, in Holland, in 1583.
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of
your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam, in 1606.
If you are a Unitarian, your religion was
founded in London, by John Biddle, in 1645.
If you are an 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 Quaker, your religion was
founded by George Fox, in England, in 1647.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was
launched by John and Charles Wesley, in England, in 1739.
If you are a Universalist, John Murray
founded your religion in New Jersey, in 1770.
If you are an Evangelical, you owe the
founding of your religion to Jacob Albright, in Pennsylvania, in 1803.
If you are a Mormon, a "Latter Day
Saint," then Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.
If you are a Seventh Day Adventist, your
religion originated in New York, by William Miller, in 1831.
If you worship with the Salvation Army
sect, then you acknowledge William Booth in London as your originator, in 1865.
If you are a Jehovah Witness, then your
church was founded by Charles Taze Russell, in 1872, as the "Millennial
Dawnists." In 1931, Judge Rutherford, his successor, decided that henceforth they
would be called, Witnesses of Jehovah, or Jehovah Witness.
If you are a Christian Scientist, then Mary
Baker Eddy founded your religion in Massachusetts, in 1879.
If you belong to the Assembly of God
religion, then a General Assembly in Arkansas started it in 1914.
If you claim the Church of the Nazarene as
your religion, then Union at General Assembly launched it in 1919.
If you are an Evangelical Reformed, then
Union at General Assembly created it in 1934.
If you belong to "Pentecostal
Gospel," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men in the last
100 years.
If you are a Roman Catholic, you know that
your religion was founded in the year 33 by Our Lord Jesus Christ; the One True Faith,
". . . outside of which no one at all can be saved."
