It's interesting to read this. I think what must happen is these spiritual traditions get wired into our brains very deeply when we grow up. Of course, as a Japanese-American I grew up with Christianity all around me, on television, among my childhood friends, and so on, but it wasn't a core part of my childhood in any significant way. I did experience a moment, in childhood, when I was 8 years old, and I decided I was going to be a Christian. So I prayed and so on. After months of this I actually went to church for the first time, and there I encountered a Sunday school teacher who tried to use the chicken and egg story as an argument in favor of creationism. This struck even my eight year old mind as ludicrous and I loudly berated the poor woman about how the whole thing obviously gradually evolved over time, how could she not know this? Since Christianity wasn't something that I had grown up with, I just never knew before then that some Christians didn't believe in evolution! It was so shocking to me I became an atheist at that moment and it was only much later I began to get interested in spirituality again and even later I realized there was value in Christianity after all; but I have never been particularly drawn to it.

I have some friends who feel drawn to Christianity, however, despite their affinity for Buddhism and their aversion to the anti-scientific aspects of Christianity; this post, however, makes it a bit more clear to me why this is. There's a kind of deep rooted thing that happens, it seems to me, when you're growing up with a certain tradition of symbolism all around you. For me, Christianity, however much it is part of the surrounding context of my childhood, isn't that --- it doesn't have that draw for me. But I can see how it could be the case for those who really did grow up with it.

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I don't see much harm in this; with a sense of humor, getting people to become aware of meditation as a potential alternative seems harmless, funny, performance art. It raises awareness without being aggressive.