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That was really scary.
I've been babysitting Chauncy and Miles pretty much all day, what with Travis being with Avril and Mom and Dad being in town. So. . . we've spent most of the day watching cartoon's and anime. And it's actually been a lot of fun. There's just something abotu little kids that brings you back to that carefree little-kid innocence. It's inspiring. So for lunch I decided to make ramen, because it's easy and yummy. We threw onions and chives and eggs and tofu and stuff in it, and it was really good. Over lunch, I randomly started talking to Chauncy about religion. He doesn't really know that much about "important" Christian happenings. . . he knows that Jesus was born on Christmas, from Christmas songs, but that's about it. He knows a bit more about Buddhism. Like the life story of the Buddha and. . . the spread of Buddhism through Asia and a thing or two of Buddha's teachings. So I asked Chauncy why he thought we had religion, and barely thinking about the answer, he said "Self-control". Which. . . makes sense, but it's not something you expect coming from a 9-year old. I asked him what he meant by that, and he said that religion's there so people don't do things they're not supposed to do.
"Do you think you have religion?"
"No."
"So. . . what keeps you from killing someone?"
"It's against the law"
"So. . . why don't you lie?"
"I don't want to lose my allowance"
"So if we have laws to prevent us from doing bad things, why do you think we still have religion?"
"I dunno. . . as a back-up? Because the people who started religions were important?"
And. . . it was fun.
I've been babysitting Chauncy and Miles pretty much all day, what with Travis being with Avril and Mom and Dad being in town. So. . . we've spent most of the day watching cartoon's and anime. And it's actually been a lot of fun. There's just something abotu little kids that brings you back to that carefree little-kid innocence. It's inspiring. So for lunch I decided to make ramen, because it's easy and yummy. We threw onions and chives and eggs and tofu and stuff in it, and it was really good. Over lunch, I randomly started talking to Chauncy about religion. He doesn't really know that much about "important" Christian happenings. . . he knows that Jesus was born on Christmas, from Christmas songs, but that's about it. He knows a bit more about Buddhism. Like the life story of the Buddha and. . . the spread of Buddhism through Asia and a thing or two of Buddha's teachings. So I asked Chauncy why he thought we had religion, and barely thinking about the answer, he said "Self-control". Which. . . makes sense, but it's not something you expect coming from a 9-year old. I asked him what he meant by that, and he said that religion's there so people don't do things they're not supposed to do.
"Do you think you have religion?"
"No."
"So. . . what keeps you from killing someone?"
"It's against the law"
"So. . . why don't you lie?"
"I don't want to lose my allowance"
"So if we have laws to prevent us from doing bad things, why do you think we still have religion?"
"I dunno. . . as a back-up? Because the people who started religions were important?"
And. . . it was fun.