1/30/2006: Caning

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I have a pet theory that Abrahamaic religions have a life cycle, based on centuries since founding...

I'm not sure what we will do when Mormonism gets to that point. Isn't that the most recent offshoot to a) claim a new prophet and b) survive?

I think that might be the 7th Day Adventists.

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Thanks to religioustolerance.org, I now know the following:

Mormon Church Founded: 1830. Joseph Smith had his first vision at age 13, in 1820.

7th Day Adventist Church Founded: 1863

Jehovah Witness Founded (Zion Watch Tower Tract Society): 1884

Unitarian Universalist Church Founded: 1961 (Unitarians and Universalists merged. Unitarian church was formed in 1638 in Transylvania. The first Universalist Church in the U.S. was formed in 1785, however there had been Universalist Churches in England as early as the 17th Century).

Looks like the UUs win on a technicality for youngest, but the JWs are really the winners. Of course I left out/ignored a lot of sects.

Great. I go back and check the site and of course NOW I find this lovely completed table of all this information.