Religious Objects A teacher asked her students what religious objects they had in their homes. One boy answered "We have a picture of a woman with a halo holding a baby and every day my mother kneels in front of it." The next little boy said "We have a brass statue of a man seated with crossed legs and a Chinese face, and every day my parents burn an incense stick before it." Then a third boy piped up: "In the bathroom we have a little white platform with numbers on it. Every day my mother stands on it first thing in the morning and screams "OH MY GOD!!!"