Proud mummy moment…………
This might be a bit *sad* but we caught the end of The Romantics on BBC2 this evening, Erk watched getting really excited at a reading of Shelley’s work (something to do with Atheism - I’m not very *up* on poetry etc.) he then proceeded to tell me that he’d thought about that too, that God is created by people through the energy of their belief and that God needs people to live and believing in God helps people to live. Now, I’m not atheist (and Erk used to see what he describes as angels and clearly believes there is ’something’ there too), but I was impressed by a 9 year old’s capacity to consider such things and the fact that he understood what Shelley was rattling on about. It also reminded me (just a little bit) of Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods” (which is possibly a little more approachable - I’m ever the one to admit I’m not exactly the academic…..)
(Slings'n'things)
