If so, how?

me about the "t" on top the building downtown. I took my daughter to a pro-transsexual march, and my daughter saw a protest sign with a quote from Jesus on it. She asked, "Who is Jes-us?" I realized that we needed to have several talks on the issue.

I wish I had had more exposure to religions other than christianity as a kid. Though I did some exploring as a teen and young adult, I really didn't know what else was out there until then.

With religion being so pervasive, I agree that kids need to know what it is. Doing it in a way that leads to tolerance and acceptance of other ways of seeing the world seems imperative, but how does one achieve that?

A man named Jesus was the son of the Christian God. He tried to convince everyone to be nice, but some of the people in his day freaked out, and had him killed by nailing him to the cross. <-- That was the gist of what we said. She then asked a bunch of questions, and still does, and we try to answer them the best we can.

We have also discussed Buddhism and Paganism with her and our oldest son. They are mostly interested in Paganism because they all have Pagan names.

cross-religious education, but I don't know if they include paganism.

Sounds like your explanation was good. I had a lot of questions about catholicism as a child, but I don't remember how they were answered.

So my brothers and I were raised as Catholics. We had lots of questions about our religion, which we asked our mother about. My mother recently remarked that she knows far more about Catholicism than she does about Judaism.

Admittedly, I have also said that I have some serious problems with the Catholic Church as she currently is. See, for example, http://www.democraticunderground.com/1221591#post1

I have also said that there are times I seriously consider becoming an Episcopalian.

Judaism plays a very small part in my life. I do hold a seder every year, and on Yom Kippur, I fast, read Lamentations and pray the Kaddish for my family who were killed in the Holocaust. I own a very nice menorah -- a present from my Catholic wife -- but I do not actually use it. I am familiar with many of the laws of the Talmud, and I can explain Kashrut if called on to do so. (A couple of years ago, I attended a Jewish wedding, and was surprised to see that cold shrimp was the first course at the reception dinner.)

have with it.

Judaism actually plays a bigger role in your life than the life of most christians.

Do you have children? How did or are you raising them?

One of whom is a Catholic, one is an agnostic, and the third is an atheist.

I did send them all to Catholic schools, but I also taught them to think for themselves.

One of my children went to a catholic high school. He is essentially an atheist, but highly likely to convert because he is planning on marrying someone whose family takes their catholicism very seriously.

Why are you asking?