ABSTRACT
Many people find the large array of Christian groups rather puzzling. The main groups are well known: Roman Catholics, Church of England, Methodists, Baptists, Salvation Army, etc., but there are also innumerable splinter movements which are variously referred to as sects or cults. For instance, some Pentecostals and some Anglicans (Church of England) may have very similar beliefs but their respective organizations are vastly different, and they recruit their members in very different ways. People are virtually born into the Church of England, certainly they are regarded as members if they are baptized or christened in the Church. Europe's money-lenders were often Jews who were under no obligation to observe these Christian beliefs. The only main Christian groups to emerge from this period of history with reasonably clean hands were, at this time, minor Nonconformist bodies, namely, the Baptists, the Friends or Quakers, and the Socinians—today called Unitarians.
