And God Created Appendix

"Why did God make appendix for?!  Want to kill us ah?!"  screamed Pumpkin.  I was telling her not to do cartwheels immediately after dinner or she might get appendicitis.  This leads her to ask me about god as she is apt to do now and then.

Pumpkin: "Is there a god or people made it up?"

Me: "Some people believe that there really is a god and they don't think they are making it up.  And then there are other people who do not believe that there is a god so they think that god is made up by man.  What do you think?  Do you think there is a god?"

Pumpkin: "No I think people made it up."

"God is real!"  Sai Pi protests.  "My teacher said if you don't believe in Jesus Christ you will go to the Devil."  I see that church kindergarten of hers has been planting ideas in her head.  

Ok back to Pumpkin.  

Me: "Why do you think people make up god for?"

Pumpkin: "To scare people."

Me: "And why would they want to scare people?"  

Pumpkin: "I don't know."

Tai Pi joins in with her two cents worth: "People made up god because long ago there was no science.  Now there is science and science explains everything."  Ah, spoken like a true atheist.