| Most of us have been exposed to at least one | | | | instead of a Buddhist? What God intervening and put |
| religion while we were being raised by our parents. I | | | | an end to this nightmare? Do you think that the |
| was raised a Christian and lived in a Christian | | | | Christian would now be a Buddhist follower? |
| community. Like most Muslims and Hindus, we never | | | | We are all products of our environment, whether we |
| had a choice, about which religion we wanted to | | | | like it or not. How you were raised, who you hung |
| belong to. Our upbringing determined our future | | | | around with, the people you admired and of course |
| religious beliefs. No matter how good or bad our | | | | your parents have all had a certain impact on your |
| childhood was, our parents justified their behaviors | | | | life. Believe it or not, your religious views are from |
| and we accepted these and will probably pass them | | | | your childhood. Now there is a certain exception, |
| down to our children. | | | | those who switch religions, but this is extremely rare. |
| I was wondering, what if you took the strongest | | | | However, there are people who seem to be waking |
| Christian in this country and put them into a Tibetan | | | | up from this fog of reality. As the Internet becomes |
| monastery, shortly after they were born. Instead of | | | | more popular and easier to access, people can often |
| growing up in a Christian community and gathering | | | | visit other countries from the comfort of their home, |
| strength through other Christians, this person would | | | | through the World Wide Web. The more we are |
| now be exposed to Buddhism. | | | | exposed to different points of view and other |
| What do you think would happen now? Do you think | | | | religions, the more real our world becomes. |
| that God would intervene and somehow bring him | | | | The conclusion to this story is, there's a very good |
| back to the United States or put him in a different | | | | chance, by switching a child at birth, their beliefs |
| Christian community, to be raised as a Christian, | | | | would be entirely different. |