St Patricks Day 2012

so st patty's day, my friend tells taco that st patrick was responsible for driving all the snakes out of ireland. now he's is obsessed with this factoid. being honest parents we tell him that st patty didn't REEEALLY drive snakes out of ireland. we talked about snakes symbolizing the druids and St Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland by converting all the druids from paganism to Christianity. (well duh). The best I could do was to explain what a fable is. We went over the story of the tortoise and the hare and how that teaches you a lesson to take it slow. That you want to be the tortoise and not the hare (though huggy insists on being the hare). Then we tried to get Taco to understand that the snakes are a metaphor for the druids. The followup conv went something like this:

what are druids? Druids are pagans.
What are pagans? they don’t believe in god.
What do they believe in? nature.
I don’t believe in god. (Greeeeat.) Its good to question but god loves you and watches out for you all the time. you just have to have faith in him even though you haven’t seen him.
Do you believe in Santa? Yes.
You believe in him and you haven’t seen santa right? I did see Santa.
Oh right (damn nordstrem asian santa).
Do you believe in the tooth fairy? No. (This is when I realize we’ve gone down the wrong path.)
Is god only real in heaven? Nope, god is real everywhere. …..

so we are open to any advice on how to explain religion to the boys. :)