My 9 y-o daughter regularly rents kid movies. Yesterday she took The Prince of Egypt, which is a cartoon version of Moses' story. As she watched it this afternoon, I was kind of curious of what she would feel about it. Especially as she is very fond of Egyptian mythology, and in this story the Egyptians and their gods are the villains.
So we had quite an interesting conversation, especially on monotheism vs. polytheism.
At some point I asked her: "What would you prefer, one God or several?"
She thought for a moment and answered: "One."
-- "Why?"
-- "Because I guess many gods mean a lot to obey."
-- "OK, but if you are unhappy with one you can look for another; if there is only one and he bothers you, you can't escape him."
-- "Yes, but he can realise he's a pain in the ass and change."
-- "And a god among many couldn't?"
-- "The others wouldn't let him."
We also discussed more generally about religion and the lack thereof, and she made the following remark: "With religion life runs slower."
-- "What do you mean? Religion is a loss of time?"
-- "No, she says. Actually you live more. You pay more attention to life."
Tonight she decided she would "pray" before going to bed. She improvised a ritual of hers in front of the window and just said: "Thank you, sun; thank you, moon."