Gordon Melton scours the country trying to count the number of major denominations in the United States. It has been estimated that there are more than 33,000 denominations of Christianity in the entire world. There are not nearly that many in the U.S., but some of the groups that Melton discovered are kind of interesting.
For example, he discovered one group called, “The Church of the Kennedy Worshippers.” That’s a church which actually believes that it can pray to the late President John F. Kennedy, and be cured both of congenital defects as well as of terminal diseases.
Then there’s “The Church of the Ministry of Universal Wisdom.” They’re looking for flying saucers to come. And then there’s “The Church of What’s Happening Now,” which sounds like something out of the Doonesbury comic…