At what age should a child be introduced to religion?

[John 6IX Breezy]

Prince of egypt and veggie tales......? That was your childhood experience of christianity coming from a christian home Breezy?

I grew up watching Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and Disney Channel. And I don't recall my parents reading any stories like Aesop's Fables to me as a kid. I think there is a sense in which many Christians, or at least Seventh-Day Adventists, are mildly biased against fiction. They are generally seen as a waste of time, or perhaps even corrupting the mind. So I mostly remember having a leapfrog, zoobooks, and other science books. And I think the only Bible book I had was more of an archeological book that had pictures of artifacts, history, and regions of Israel etc.

(Maybe it's also worth mentioning that I didn't grow up believing in Santa Claus either. That's not the way South American cultures celebrate Christmas. I always viewed that as an American tradition.)

I think at some point during Middle School my family went to a Prophecy Seminar, which is common in Adventist circles, and that's what sparked my personal interest in religion. I don't know if you've ever heard an SDA prophecy seminar before but they are very academic for lack of a better word. In other words, you are engaging with ideas and propositions, studying and dissecting them. And that was the tradition I followed. So even when I began to read the Bible alongside the Bible commentary in High School, I was engaging with the subject at the level of ideas rather than with the stories themselves.