It seems to take only about 40 years for a well-founded denomination to abandon the faith and become apostate.

In just one generation, even the Puritans failed to prevent it. New England, once a bastion of orthodoxy, became a home for Unitarianism and other completely non-Christian "churches" in spite of their parents' Puritan faith.

I often wonder why it seems that it's always the "good guys" who end up having to separate themselves from a denomination gone astray and start over, rather than the other way around.

-R