“Mommy,” 5-year-old Joseph recently asked Amie Parsons, “if Jesus was a carpenter and was real, and God isn’t real, does that mean Jesus built the schools and buildings?”
Parsons, who describes herself as nonreligious, was delighted by her son’s slightly confused question.
“We tell him to ask lots of questions,” she said. “We’re not real big into telling him what to think or what to believe.”
