When there is a big plant, People starts looking for numbers. When there is a dog that have 5 legs, People starts looking for numbers. When there is an unknown kind of fish, People starts looking for numbers. Thai People believes in ghost and do not thing except buy lotteries. When something strange happen.
All religions are foreign to Thailand, of course.
Buddhism originated in India. Christianity in Israel. Islan in Arabia. To oppose to this Act on the ground of foreign idea is xenophobic. It's partly true, but some foreign idea mustn't be adopted if it's irrelavant to Thai society.