Well my DD is only 2.5, so i'm hardly the oracle on this one, BUT we have a bible, a copy of the koran and a copy of the torah in the house. This is mainly by chance (because i like reading such things and even though i am not a believer in any major religion i don't believe any of them are without truth either). They are about. DD loves the bible because it's white (a christening edition) with silver gilt pages, and likes to flip through it, but isn't interested in the words being read (it's a King James - i refuse to read the Good News or and other kids version on the grounds that the more watered down it is the farther from the truth it gets - i'd read it in Hebrew if i could). She's fascinated by the koran because mama reads it back to front (it has hebrew one side and english the other but it reads right to left) but again, not to excited to be read to.

I plan in leaving these things about, and letting her see other religious or religion-related items i have (a prayer wheel, a rosary, the stars my relatives wore in Germany in the ghettos) and answering her questions as they come up. If i don't know an answer i will wiki or google it and we will find out together.

I can see if one believed only one major religion was true, one would teach kids that first, because that is the faith you would be hoping to raise them into, but i think they're all true, so i don't mind letting her see all kinds of religions and how they work so she can feel her own way forwards, spiritually. I feel very lucky in having IRL friends of many religions. I know taoists, hindu's (including some hare krishna's), Muslims (sunni and shia), Christians (catholics, baptists, mormons, evangelists, wee free's and CofE's), jews (orthodox and reform) and a few wiccans, so i feel like there will be SOMEONE she can talk to whatever route she's looking at. And yes, i would absolutely take her off to see their places of worship where possible (some religions don't allow the uninitiated into places of worship) and let her explore the ideas herself.

Bx