The fact is that neither America nor the world has ever seen a more diverse religious nation than the United States. Buddhists and Hindus have greatly influenced the way many Americans view life and death. That number has no doubt dramatically increased. It may surprise you to know that there are almost as many Buddhists in the United States as there are Seventh-day Adventists in the whole North American Division. There are 800,000 Buddhists in the US, according to a 1994 report.
Some Buddhist scholars believe there are perhaps four or five times that number.
This should cause some concern if you take into consideration that it took the Adventist Church in America 150 years to reach that membership while the Buddhists reached that number in only a little over 30 years. These Buddhists are not all imported from the Far East either. Satan has carefully grafted this tree to bear the most alluring and forbidden fruits from all the non-Christian worldviews, beliefs, practices, and philosophies. It's a smorgasbord of irresistible, exotic morsels of beliefs and philosophies. Bear in mind that not everyone who is a part of this movement practices or believes every facet of the New Age movement.