I've never had kids of my own 
but I do have a nephew now aged 24 and his little 8-year-old sister. When my nephew was about his sister's age, or a little younger, we had a little incident involving a longtime friend of mine who was visiting and playing video games etc. He and his then-girlfriend, now wife, had just caught religion and, like all good Typhoid Marys, had no qualms about spreading it around.
On this occasion, he'd given my nephew a sticker he'd got from his church, some kids' club rubbish, and was chatting to him about monsters and suchlike. I forget the details now but the gist of it was that monsters and demons are real and come out at night, sort of thing. Something like that.
Later, after the friend had left, my nephew came to me, his trusted uncle, and in a small scared voice asked if what he'd been told was real. Of course I reassured him that it was all just made up and my friend was just being silly. After a while, my nephew went back to his games and the telly and plain old little boy activities.
Next day I had a short, sharp 'chat' with my friend and funnily enough he never tried to do it again. He did try to convert me a few times, only making himself look silly in the process. Despite all this, we're still very great friends and in fact his faith seems to have diminished over the years, possibly due to some rational influence whose identity completely escapes me
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but I do have a nephew now aged 24 and his little 8-year-old sister. When my nephew was about his sister's age, or a little younger, we had a little incident involving a longtime friend of mine who was visiting and playing video games etc. He and his then-girlfriend, now wife, had just caught religion and, like all good Typhoid Marys, had no qualms about spreading it around.On this occasion, he'd given my nephew a sticker he'd got from his church, some kids' club rubbish, and was chatting to him about monsters and suchlike. I forget the details now but the gist of it was that monsters and demons are real and come out at night, sort of thing. Something like that.
Later, after the friend had left, my nephew came to me, his trusted uncle, and in a small scared voice asked if what he'd been told was real. Of course I reassured him that it was all just made up and my friend was just being silly. After a while, my nephew went back to his games and the telly and plain old little boy activities.
Next day I had a short, sharp 'chat' with my friend and funnily enough he never tried to do it again. He did try to convert me a few times, only making himself look silly in the process. Despite all this, we're still very great friends and in fact his faith seems to have diminished over the years, possibly due to some rational influence whose identity completely escapes me
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
