Quote:I'd think it's more like the Catholic/Eastern Orthodox split in terms of the relative size/power of the factions involved. Protestantism dissolved into several dozen sects within a very short time, while the major Orthodox churches remained pretty monolithic.
That is something of a vast simplification of the sunni/shiite split. It is more like the difference between the schism of protestant/catholic. ( something several major wars have been fought over.)
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