Metaphors

This morning as the kids and I were driving to Trader Joe's Zion asked one of his semi-regular religious questions.

"Does G-d die?", he asked.

"No", I said.

"Why not?"

"Well, G-d isn't really alive, so G-d can't die. G-d isn't like us, it is something completely other".

A pause. Then, "Does Asalan die?" (The kids loves The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. He's actually sat through 2 readings of it in the past 6 months!)

"No, not really", I replied.

"Why?" (See a pattern here?)

"Because Asalan is a metaphor for G-d.", I said, feeling pleased at the intelligence our discussion was showing. "When C.S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia stories, wants to talk about how he understands G-d, he uses Asalan to describe him."

Zion was quiet again, then said something I couldn't quite understand. I asked him to repeat it. "Will you turn up the music?", he said.

And so The Ramones concluded our lesson for the day.

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