For example, ******* was originally a Christian however converted to Theravada Buddhism at the age of fourteen. ******* felt religion is fairly important and both her parents were of Australian ethnicity although her father is an Atheist and her mother, too, converted to Theravada Buddhism. The conversion was for the reason that ******* did not really understand the moral values that her God had sent down.
“…..I think the big difference between my experiences of Christianity and Buddhism was the ‘why’ factor…the pastor referred to homosexuality as ‘sick’ in the context of a joke…my aunt is a lesbian, and I never saw any evidence that it was hurting her or anyone else.”
*******, during an interview
The motive for *******'s conversion may be because the Western society is now very modernised and adopts more of a fresh concept of the world today...