But when Rex was 4, he reframed my view of religion. One night, I was cooking dinner, and he asked, “Is God real?”

“What do you think?” I asked.

“I think that for real God is pretend and for pretend God is real,” Rex announced.

I was stunned. That’s a big thought for a 4-year-old.  

- Scott Hershovitz, "How to Pray to a God You Don’t Believe In," New York Times, May 2, 2022

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