I’m currently writing a story far more serious than this, set in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War and following the children still stuck dealing with nutty Cold Warriors in reactionary places where the churches have too much power and the end of the war didn’t really change much, that starts when our main characters are six, not two, but an incident like this (“The only time Bishop McCarthy was ever called to the toddlers’ Sunday School at the parish church, and not to St. Mary’s Catholic School, involved three year old James, several two year olds, a bunch of big sticks, and the words “protracted people’s war”. The bishop was mad at everyone, James’s mom was mad at the bishop for wasting her time, James’s dad was trying to do damage control, it was nuts.”) would be great background for the one kid the bishop’s actually sometimes justified in questioning (but he goes way too far even if the kid he’s harassing is actually a commie, and most of them aren’t).