There is an issue with that -- factionalism has increased and decreased at different points. in the first 700 years there were huge disagreements and you had Marcionism, Arianism, Gnosticism etc. This continued to the political disagreements of the 11th century to the politically influenced Reformation (yes of course there was a religious aspect, but when I see how the Duchy of Prussia converted I see sound pragmatic political reasons as well)
Hello, Cronos. My simple point in regard to factionalism was that we have, by one man’s count, 33,000 denominations within Christendom. I suspect that number has never been greater; and, furthermore, it is increasing.