at 3 i dont think i could even say Jesus,let alone come up with an nde that fits in with the other hundreds of cases)
Maybe, but this is very hard to control for. With what's on TV now I wouldn't trust that a kid hadn't been exposed to these ideas a number of times. I'd also be interested in the parents views and what they had ever told the kid.
With what we know about this and, I'm afraid, what we can
ever know this is probably just going to stay an interesing story. It just doesn't have any value as a way of coming to any conclusions in anyway at all.
I know there are many for whom cute little stories or anecdotes count as "evidence" for something ( my Mom is one of those) but psychology and careful science has taught us that they are almost completely unreliable. At best a few of them are a starting point for real study, most of the time they aren't even that.