Sectarians

I might mention that the beings of your planet have yet
another particularity that long ago became proper to them alone, which
consists in this, that no sooner does some new 'havatviernoni,' or 'religion,'
arise among them than its followers begin to split up into different camps,
and each of these soon forms what is called a 'sect' of its own The strangest
thing about this particularity of theirs is that those who belong to such a sect
never call themselves 'sectarians,' as the name is considered offensive, they
are called this only by those who do not belong to their sect And the
adherents of a sect are 'sectarians' for others only as long as they have no
'guns' and 'ships' at their disposal, but as soon as they get hold of enough guns
and ships, what had been a particular sectarian doctrine at once becomes the
dominant religion.
- G. I. Gurdjieff "Beelzebub's tales to his grandson"