If you ask Christian young people from different faiths, I think they all agree that Jesus is our Savior and the way we disagree on is how we should worship him. It was more a call to the faithful to realize that there is a fundamental difference between the churches. The Jesuits actually encouraged me to find out what it is that my friends believed in, to experience their religion and see what it is. They want you to be open-minded to go to make your decisions for yourself. But when you get to a point or God forbid a death in the family like we went through if my parents had had different religious views, our family wouldn t be where we are now.
Religion can make or break a family.
And religion has made our family. Nobody has talked about Jesus in terms of judgment. Jesus and religion today are all about love and learning about yourself and dealing with other people. People in other parts of the world see Jesus more as a judge, a person who does not like to see people doing wrong. In the West, and the United States in particular, Jesus is more of a loving person and there s more of a forgiveness factor to him.