Extraordinary Stupidity W. was shockingly unaware there are two Muslim sects, Sunni and Shia or that they detest each other.
By his count there are "1,350 cults and sects in the United States, from the Church of Scientology to Hasidic Judaism," he said, speaking of offshoots of mainstream religions.
"I mean there are all these different sects and if you look at them in the whole it doesn't seem to make any sense - they contradict each other so fundamentally.
Japan, where there are many sects but little fear of hell, has grown far faster since the second world war than the Catholic Philippines.
There are evangelical sects that worry over witches still, and laws on the books criminalizing witchcraft (in Canada, it's still in the federal Criminal Code), but the demonizing has now been replaced by witch-boosterism.
There are different sects that exists in Islam, schools of thought and religious leaders.
While there are some sects of Hinduism that do not worship murtis (for e.g., Arya Samaj, Assamese Vaishnavism), they are loved and revered by the majority of Hindus, especially within devotional sects of Hinduism.
From Peninsular Malaysia there are two species of Begonia sect.
Professor Heilman estimated there are 20,000 followers of the Bobov sect, although some other Jewish leaders said the sect had more than 100,000 members who are concentrated in New York, Montreal, Toronto, Miami and London.
