teaching religion to your kid

From the time that our child was very young, we've spoken of "in our culture we..." and "in other cultures they..." We've done it in a way that respects other cultures, and we've done quite a bit of it with regards to gods and goddesses, mythologies, and so forth. My suggestion would be to start with Jung and the archetypes, and also to start with the heroic stories of the classic greek and roman myths, and discuss what Hera or Diana meant to people who prayed to her, and how people related to the gods then and to god now. We're trying hard to let Simon understand the cultural framework for beliefs - of many different kinds. A great book, even if you want to avoid tomes and so forth is the Joseph Campbell Companion which is just absolutely lovely. It's got wonderful insights to spirituality and its role in many different cultures, as well as insights to being a person, and to culture itself.