This morning Oscar and Alban were having a heated discussion about god.

O:  He is mostly made up, like make believe

A:  Right because he is not an angel.  But he made the earth.

O:  Yes.  He made the earth, but he didn’t make people.  People came from the earth in revolution.

A:  People are not god!!  He made the earth!!  But he is not an angel.

O:  Right.  So he just sits up there in heaven and watches all of us.

A:  There is no heaven.  He just knows everything.

O:  Well, if you are Jewish you can say there is no heaven.  But you have to go to temple if you are Jewish and you are not Jewish.

A:  I go to [a Jewish] school!!!  So I KNOW THAT GOD IS NOT AN ANGEL!!!  I don’t want to go to temple.

And on and on it went just like this.  Evolution, angels, the existence or not of heaven, temple versus church … it all was covered this morning while mom clutched her cup of coffee and stared at her children in amazement. 

I think it might be time to get them some kind of formal religious education from the Unitarians.