Conversations at the lunch table

Conversations at the lunch table are getting interesting by the day. It's mostly a question and answer session between the children and the parent at home.
A recent (on most days the topic is the same - God/gods, Satan, death etc) conversation went like this:
Ash: "How do we do good deeds?"
'The brain instructs our heart and hands to act'.
'Oh! I thought Jesus told us to do good deeds, not our brain.' Mira's Sunday School education reared its head.
'Well, Jesus tells the brain to give directions.' I said not wanting to contradict her beliefs.
'But I thought Jesus sat in our hearts, not in our brain.' exclaimed Mira.
I'm a little confused and smile wearily.

The talk slowly turns into a discussion on religion and gods.
Mira: "Who takes care of the Christians in Dubai? Does Jesus look after the welfare of Xians alone and the other gods of his/her people?"
I had never thought of that issue but I tell her, 'Each God takes care of his own people, wherever they are.' I explain that the God of the Muslims and the Christians are the same, just that we call by different names. I quote the Bible to emphasise how we have all descended from Father Abraham.
'But if Jesus is the living God, why is it that he alone died while all the Hindu gods never died and are all living?'' Mira is doubtful. Like a good Xian I explain Jesus' death and resurrection. But the Hindu and Greek gods lived very interesting lives and they have a lot of fun too, I add. (Hindu myths especially of our very own Maveli come up at subsequent meal times. Mahabali's tale makes me very emotional.)
'My Sunday School teacher has told me ours is the true God and we must not pray to other gods.' The dogmatic learning they have imbibed makes me give up my good Xian garb and turn rationalist -- from all gods being the same to doubting the existence of a supernatural power. ''Gods are man-made creations so that humans don't become too bad, and try to be good.'
'Is there a separate heaven and hell for each religion?'
'Yeah. But Hindus believe in rebirth, so they don't need one. If you do bad things you will be born an insect.'
'Is there  heaven for animals too?'
Yup. I answer glibly not having given much thought about it before.
'Then our Bruno must have surely gone to heaven.' Bruno was dad's Labrador who died at the age of 13. The children had spent a few vacations with him.
'Our valiammachi (great grandma) will also surely go to heaven. But I hope she will live up to 120 and create a record.' Granny is 97 now; save for  difficulty in walking she is doing fine by God's grace.
'Do you think D-papa went to heaven?' That's their maternal grand uncle whom they spent some vacations with.
'I don't know.'
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Later, while studying her social studies lesson on the earth's core, Mira asks: 'Is this red-hot core what we call hell?
I tell her to keep heaven and hell out of her school textbooks.