Reincarnation?
I find this paragraph buried toward the end rather interesting:
“Looking back, we realised we had regularly discussed our differing beliefs. Our daughter brought us Genesis. We gave her the Michael Bay-friendly Big Bang. She brought us the Nativity and peace and goodwill at Christmas. We gave her family, friends and good food. She brought us the crucifixion. We gave her the Easter Bunny. She brought us heaven, god and an afterlife. We gave her 21st-century life and a brief future as worm fodder.”
their daughter learned that there is more to life than ending up as ‘worm fodder’ after our body expires and that our souls continue to live and have a home to go to after exile here. Her parents apparently are content to believe that physical life on this hunk of dirt is the beginning and end.
Indoctrination.