I'm going to try to post something every day for a few days to see if it gets me over my writer's block. I may also experiment with giving links to things I read or see that especially appeal to me. So, here's something quick I never got around to posting.
We are an atheist family, but we have more experience with the Christian holidays (in an agnostic way!) than with other religions', so we celebrate non-religious versions of Christmas and Easter. The only real trick to this so far is that I love old Christmas carols, and blast it, most of them are about Jesus for some weird reason. So the kids do pick up little references to Christian stories here and there.
I forget the exact context, but Russell said something one day about Jesus Christ. I asked him, "Do you know who Jesus Christ was?"
"Yes," he murmured, not sounding very confident.
"Who do you think he was?"
"A computer guy."
"A computer guy?" I said, trying to sound neutral. "What makes you think that?"
"David talks about him when he's working on the computer."
I know, I know, it sounds like one of those Reader's Digest stories...