Despite the fact that it was his birthday and not mine, Nick bought me a lovely present that arrived today in the post. Its a t-shirt demonstrating through flow-charts the difference between science and faith. I've made that sound much duller than it is. Its actually pretty funny.

Anyway, I wore said shirt as we went out to Nick's birthday dinner tonight and it provoked much discussion from the kids who both wanted to work their way through each flowchart and were very pleased with the "science" one.

Gregory then said somewhat out of the blue "I don't like Christians. Not just because they are so barmy wrong, but also because they make it look like men are superior to women."

I asked what he meant and he said " All the important people in Christianity are men - God, Jesus, all the disciples, all the people who wrote the gospels, John, Joseph. It makes it seem that men do everything and women aren't involved."

Gregory clearly spends quite a bit of time thinking about religion and its consequences - prompted very little by us, but ironically I suspect provoked by the vast amounts of gratuitious religion that he has to put up with at school.

A good evening had by all.