-The older we get, the further we get from the truth
and the more we search for answers.
If only we could ask the real experts,
life would go a whole lot smoother.
This is "Little Kids, Big Questions."
Featuring is your host, Ingrid Michaelson
and the Austin Hartley-Leonard Quintet.
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-Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So, it goes like this.
One day you decide to believe in something.
Then you find a bunch of other people
who believe in the same thing.
You start spending a lot of time together
and hanging out and bang,
you got yourself a religion.
Everything is cool and simple and making sense
but then all of a sudden you're eating big meals on certain days
or you're not eating for a weeks at a time.
You're giving presents and taking over governments
and going to war,
and all because of this big little thing called religion.
Let's see what the experts have to say.
Please welcome to the stage our guests for tonight,
Leilani, Chad, and Michael.
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-Good evening.
-Good evening. -Good evening. -Good evening.
-How are you?
-Good. -Good. -Good.
-Good, good.
Do you guys know what the topic of tonight's show is?
-No. -No.
-Religion.
Do you all know what religion is?
-I think I need to be in fourth grade to hear that.
-And I've heard of it. -You've heard of it.
-Well, I heard some people said that God created the world.
-Okay. There we go.
That's kind of religion. -Oh!
She just reminded me of something.
Like, like but God didn't create the world.
It's like a little star.
Like, like there was stuff coming inside
and then it like, poohh!
-Exploded?
-Created. -The big bang, so?
-It exploded and then it created the world.
-So in your mind, if God is around us,
what does God look like?
Yes.
-He has a little, like, golden ring around the head?
-Okay. I like that. I'll accept that.
What do you think Chad?
-I usually get all the stuff from the Bible.
So he wears white,
he has a golden ring around his head
and, uh, a kind...
-Her or his.
It might be a girl or it might be a boy.
-I'm pretty sure it's a boy. -Very progressive.
-What do you think God looks like?
-I think he has a beard!
-He has a beard?
Like a long beard? What color?
-White. -A white beard?
-Yeah. -Then he would be old.
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-If they say that God created Earth
or God created the star or God created man,
who created God?
-Ooh! -Yes.
-God created his self.
-Well, there's a conundrum.
So what kind of personality does God have?
-A really, really, really, really, really nice one.
-A nice one. Okay. -Yeah.
-I think creating-the-world one?
-Just that, so he just has a kind
of creating-the-world kind of personality.
-Yeah. -I get that, yeah.
Okay. What do you think? What kind of personality?
-I think he's probably exhausted!
-He's probably exhausted!
I think he probably is.
Does religion make people better or worse?
-Worse. -Worse. Okay.
-Why? -How's that?
-Because, like, if someone forces you to do it,
it, like, hurts you.
-Yeah. -It hurts your feelings.
-Very wise.
So, now that we know that, how do you choose?
-Um, just trying out each one
and see which one you like
and then when you're ready just like accept it.
-Okay. I'll take that.
If you were God, what prayers would you listen to?
-Well, probably the ones that are really important.
-The important ones? -Yeah.
-Okay. Okay, Michael.
-Like, if some people just say they wish they had like, a,
like, a tasty snack.
That is not important.
-Like if someone needed really big help
on their homework and it was easy,
so then I would answer the questions really fast
and wouldn't waste time.
-Oh, so you'd still help them
but you would just be [Snaps fingers] a rush job.
-Boom, bam, bam, bam, bam.
-Bam. Got it.
What would your prayer for the world be?
-Well, so everybody doesn't get like attacked by robberies.
-Everybody get giant robots. -Cool.
-Defend themselves,
awesome house, million dollars, bam!
-So, Leilani, Chad, and Michael.
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Oh, yeah.
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