Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Passion of the Confused 6 Year Old

Today M's teacher told me that she was talking animatedly to her friends about Jesus. About how he was dragging himself through the streets (imitation of a slumped staggering body). About how he died hanging, that he was carrying a cross, bleeding. M's teacher cut her off when she deemed it too graphic. I was sort of amused and embarrassed since I definitely never spoke to her about any of that. Nor do I know squat about how Jesus dies beyond the basic visuals. I told her she was probably just repeating something she heard. When I questioned the religious midget about where she got her Jesus info, she non-chalantly replied "Nobody told me. I saw all of the pictures of this in the museum." F confirmed that she was describing the passion of Christ. This LBJ agnostic barely knows what the hell that means. M is already ahead of me in religious education.

3 comments:

  1. what is lbj ?

    and, btw, she does not seem that confused !!!

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  2. Little Bit Jewish- Just saw it on a show and liked it. Yeah, I am more confused than she is!

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  3. Oh, OK, in that case I'm PMJ

    love

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