This might be true of new religions. It's not true of newly developing sects of classic faiths.
Take a look, for example, at the development of the fast-food industry in the 1950s. It's not so much that McDonalds started serving up something new. Hamburgers and fries were a part of all kinds of diners and restaurants.
But restaurants were more, "y'all come" and weren't as customer-friendly as "outreach" enterprises like McDonald's. Take a look @ the Missionary & Alliance Protestant denomination. By its very title, you can see that at least one of the new "emphasis" in its beginnings was not that the church had apostacized, but rather A.B. Simpson was calling the church back to its missionary roots. [Simpson also thought the church needed to focus more on the fact that God was a healing God].
In many new denominations through the years, it hasn't always been that churches were doing something improper; sometimes, it was that the weightiness of something was being overlooked.
I mean, how often does that even occur with parents? My parents neglected teaching me some vital things. I, in turn, have tried to incorporate those things to my children. But how many things have I neglected? Denominations are like the many children of God or the tribes of Israel. They are somewhat distinct; they each emphasize the main aspects of who God is while also each stressing some part of who God is that is less emphasized in another church body. But that is what diversity-in-unity is all about. And if you don't have a diversity-in-unity God, then no wonder your founder threw out the baby with the bathwater...he didn't want that diversity...
>>no wonder your founder threw out the baby with the bathwater...
>>he didn't want that diversity...
You really area master at the offensive phrase, you almost accedentally had a civil post, nice save!
No, I don’t think Fast food is a good analogy for religion,
A) It’s bad for you
B) Eating at Wendy’s is like eating at McDonalds, you get food.
C) If you miss this one there is another two blocks down on the left.
JM $.02