Feedback on Ellen's Response

This post is intended to clarify my original post, as well as respond to Ellen's post on the possible split in the Catholic church.

My statement that added interpretation and doctrine "slowly chips off sections of the conservative base." Was not meant to imply that the base of every religion is 'conservative' or that the sections that leave are conservative. I simply was stating that, in the case of the Catholic Church, the Vatican's move towards a more liberal stance on several key doctrines (along with a sizable portion of the individual parishes), will lead to splinters off of the base of the conservative Catholic movement.

Each religious split is different, but they primarily have similar causes. Sometimes a liberal move by a group is unable to carry along the base of the religion and therefore, the liberal wing separates from the conservative (and the opposite is also positive).