"Well, it would be really inconvenient if they did, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, it just annoys me because I'm not that religion."

"Oh."

"There's a bunch of cultural and historical reasons why it's particularly annoying, but I think it would probably be better to get that from a source less likely to break out into tangential ranting mid-explanation."

"Okay."

"I mean, I can try explaining, if not knowing bothers you."

"...not knowing how to navigate a subject you have strong feelings about bothers me."

"Yeah, that's fair. Um, okay, so, I'm Jewish, is my religion, and historically a lot of people have been prejudiced against Jewish people, and Christianity is sort of a much more popular offshoot that has historically not been kind to us although any given Christian is unlikely to be prejudiced against Jewish people today. And the supposed birth year of the founder of Christianity is supposed to be year one, I think."

"Okay. What's your religion like?"

History of Judaism lecture!

"- so it's more of a cultural thing than a theological one?"

"In a lot of ways, yeah. You get people who call themselves 'Jewish atheists' and  mean it."

"What about you?"

"In terms of what I specifally actually believe? I'm pretty much agnostic."

"Okay."

"What about you?"

"Um, in the context of my world I'm an atheist but I don't actually know if all the same evidence is present here."

"That's fair."

Snuggles?

Absolutely snuggles.

Yay! Because that was terrifying.

Edie's pretty much clueless about the terror but this does not appreciably harm the quality of snuggle.

Good.

"You okay?" Maybe not completely oblivious.

"It would have been really hard if you were very attached to belief in an omnibenevolent deity and it didn't turn out that it really looked like that in this world."