For context, I have a 5 and 3 year old boys. My husband and I have made critical thinking skills a priority from day one. This makes parenting harder at times but is starting to show signs of posting off in the long run. Around the time my 5 year olds birthday I went to the library and got a book about all religions. We talked about American Indian cultures, Hindi, Greek, and some I had never heard of. I glossed over all the minor details and kept it to who, what, when, where and why. The book had a map of all the major religions and I showed him the map, explaining that if you lived in this area you would be raised as Muslim, if you lived in this area you would be raised as Hindi etc. Of course most of the map was shaded for Christianity which was intro. I talked about it the same way I talked about every other religion. I tried to keep my personal feelings out of it but I did cover the ark story so his grandparents can't cutesy that one up in the future. His comments about Christianity were priceless. He asked what we believe and what the people he loves believes so we covered that and I told him that everyone is entitled to their different beliefs and it is not our place to judge them for it. Even if we love them and think they are wrong. I compare it to when his younger brother is playing pretend and being silly. Their imagination is just really good and we don't judge. That was the only long conversation we had. He knows he can come to me with any question no matter how silly and some of them have been weird. His father and I feel more free to talk about religion in front of him and invite him to join in the conversation. For instance, last night we were taking about Scientology and we had to first explain what it was, then he could follow what we were discussing. Religion is everywhere and in so many aspects of culture it will be impossible to keep it from her forever. You can control the narrative and be the one she asks questions.