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if we shift over to Da to
Christians the most important
thing to know about the Christians is on
page 67 onwards is that Christians are
divided into two main sects two main
groups Protestants and the Catholics of
course you know that well here in the
UK you should know that they are split
down the middle it's about 50/50 though
the ratio may be different here in the
UK in the world it's about 50/50
Catholics and
Protestants the
Protestants came
about in the period of the Renaissance
15th century 16th
century when Martin Luther
a German
priest had gone to Rome seeking
Enlightenment spiritual enlightenment
only to find the
pope acting like a temporal King wearing
golden robes a big crown of gold on his
head which was so heavy he couldn't
actually wear it on his head it was
suspended from the ceiling by Iron uh
rods and he would just come and sit it
was over his throne gold Throne he would
just come and sit underneath it and it
would appear to people from a distance
that he was wearing this this Crown but
it was too heavy solid gold encrusted
with with rubies and emeralds if he
didn't have that wire holding it it
would crack his neck right and this was
the pope holding in one hand a staff
made of solid gold and an orb circle
with a cross made of solid gold
and Martin Luther came to seek spiritual
enlightenment he said I can't get any
Enlightenment from this man you know so
he was sick to you know sick to his
stomach of what he saw he went back home
to to Germany and he started to write a
series of protests against what he saw
and from the protests he and his
followers came to be known as
Protestants
Protestants that's where it came from
okay now the difference between the
two what he protested against was the
hierarchy of the church so the Pope the
Bishops the Cardinals all those
gone I know you have a Protestant group
here the anglicans I mean they came
about with Henry VII right when he
wanted to get married again and the pope
didn't want to give him permission to
remarry divorce he wouldn't allow him to
divorce so he made he broke with the
church and said okay we'll make our own
church here his was over
marriage but the main group from Martin
Luther they were actually protesting
hierarchy Etc that's why the anglicans
still keep a hierarchy quite similar to
the Catholics the difference is not that
great but they are the rest of the
Protestants they have dropped that
hierarchy you know they have councils
and things like this instead and um a
major difference between the
two is the Bible
itself the duay version of the Bible the
Catholic Bible has seven more books than
the King James Modern
Standard Bible so they have a difference
in their Bible itself this is important
because they often times will say to us
well you have Shi you have Shiites and
sunnis
you know just like
us no it's not just like you guys you
have different Bibles even the Shia and
Sunnah they have the same
Quran still the same Quran in spite of
the differences not only that you all
are split down the middle you know the
Shia are only like 20% of the main body
of Muslims so it's not the same terms of
course you might say it sounds like the
same but it's
not among the um
Christian sects you have some groups
which are quite active the Mormons the
uh 7-Day Adventists and the Jehovah of
course you need to know something about
them I've brought some details here for
you about them you can do more research
these are the active
uh groups that are trying to raise
followers all the time you know
according to 1980 figures Mormons uh
gather over 200,000 converts every year
similarly Jehovah's Witness were doing
the same that was from the 80s so
they're very active but of course most
of the converts are from Protestants and
Catholics not amongst
Muslims anyway you should know that the
Mormons don't
believe that Jesus is the son of
God uh the Jehovah's Witness
they believe Jesus was the created Son
of
God right so Son of God is more symbolic
term that he's a part of the creation
Jesus the S Day Adventists they believe
in the traditional that traditional
belief but they believe in worship on
the Sabbath on
Saturday and they ban alcohol as well as
uh
even for women makeup and smoking you
know they're and pork they don't eat
pork so these groups it's important to
know the different beliefs that they
have the Mormons have some weird beliefs
you know um and they're probably some of
the most active of the of these groups
uh they have a belief that God is
actually a big man a huge man is a man
looking like us but he's just big very
very
big and that you know Adam was him
incarnate he became a small man on the
earth and Eve was one of his wives from
the heavens that he brought down to the
Earth with him you know got some stories
like this um they also had a
belief that they're also well known for
polygamy right of those groups they're
particularly known for polygamy they um
uh the main sort of spokesman brigam
Young Who the main University in Utah
State brigam y University is named after
him he was the main uh person who
gathered their followers after the the
the founder Joseph Smith had died he had
himself 25 wives you know and I mean
they had unrestricted polygamy but the
the the the nature of their organization
their their movement or their
sect is that whenever they have
problems their leaders get Revelation to
correct the problems so when the US
government threatened
them with the removal of their statehood
in Utah state that they would take away
statehood from them if they don't stop
this polygamy all of a sudden the the
leader got Revelation that polygamy was
to be banned abrogated
similarly after the Civil Rights
Movement in America because earlier um
the temples they have this system of
temples where women can't enter the
temples and only males who have reached
a certain age you know can enter the
temples and black blacks cannot enter
the temples only whites are allowed ENT
the temples as priests right this what
they believed and practiced all the way
up until after the Civil Rights Movement
when the whole idea of discrimination
against blacks became not good anymore
all of a sudden the the leader got
Revelation that uh blacks can now become
priests also right similarly more
recently they had you know after the
women's whites movements you know
feminist movements Revelation came that
uh women can now come into the temples
right so you see this is the nature of
their group you know and many of the
other groups you see that that they're
always changing with the times you know
and we say say this can't be a religion
of God you know if it was wrong in the
now that blacks couldn't be priests it
had to be wrong in the beginning and if
this was according to the teachings of
your
founder who claims to have heard his
messages from an angel called
Moroni
right somehow strangely like
but anyway the point is that
that's the name of the Angel and you
have this book and he received this
Revelation and he's like a prophet and
that's what he taught he was in error no
he said this can't be from God this is
something you made up