Jesus and Rudolf

It is Easter. My five year old son is stood in the kitchen, his arms stretched out, his fists clenched. 

"I'm Jesus on the cross", he says.

I try to squeeze past but he catches my eye. "I'm getting down by magic."

"I think you'll find it more complicated than that." I am muttering here.

"I'm magic", he says.

I can't help myself. "If you are on the cross you are in a lot of pain and you will die".

"Isn't Jesus magic?" He is very disappointed.

"You will die and then you will come back to life", I offer. "that's pretty magical."

Mercifully he wanders off. 

What are they telling him at school? If I ask him he says he can't remember. I don't know what to say, he's five. I spoke to a friend about it. He said he and his wife are telling their seven year old daughter that some people believe this and others believe that. But then he starts talking about Darwin and how he (Darwin) can't really be bunched together with religious beliefs and that science etc. etc...

This approach didn't really satisfy me. Not for a five year old. I'm just not going to worry about it at the moment.

At Christmas he jumped on my lap.

"Daddy, is Rudolf real? Is he in this world?"

I said, "A flying reindeer? What do you think?"

I think he's still thinking about it.

Humour that flies over his head is going to be my approach for now. What do you think?