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Question content: I was thinking recently and came to the conclusion that if I had been born 5 kilometers farther north, it is very likely (statistically, in a highly significant way) that I would have been Muslim. And if a few more kilometers away, then I would today be Christian. And I would think that the truest religion is the one I was born into, and I would believe in it and think that the Jews are mistaken. And all the arguments made in favor of Judaism, like Torah given before the multitudes, etc., would receive answers that seemed perfectly satisfactory, and the books written by very wise Jews like Rabbi Yehuda Halevi and Maimonides would be replaced by books by very wise Christians, because I would have been born into a different reality. And now, since I grew up into a Jewish reality, I probably believe that the other religions are weak and that Judaism is the truest of religions. Doesn’t this fact—that people’s faith is, in the overwhelming majority of cases, a direct and clear result of the coordinates of the home in which they were born—pose a problem in the Rabbi’s view?