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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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298 The Century of the Child
denies what his Hps must repeat, or finally
allows his heart to be possessed by the only
nourishment offered to his religious needs.
My own recollections of childhood caused
me to make observations of the religious ideas
of children at an early period. I have now
before me comprehensive accounts of this in-
vestigation, going back twenty-five years. I
recollect my own fierce hate against God,
when I, at the age of six years, heard of the
death of Jesus being caused by God’s demand
for an atonement, and at ten years I recall my
denial of God’s providence, when a young
workman died far away from his wife and his
five children, to whom his existence was so
necessary. My brooding about the existence
of God took on this occasion the form of a
challenge. I wrote in the sand, " God is
dead." In doing so I thought. If there is a
God, he will kill me now with a thunderbolt.
But since the sun continued to shine, the ques-
tion was answered for the time being; but it
soon turned up again. I had no other reli-
gious instruction than reading the Bible on
Sunday, preaching on Sunday, ajid reading
from the catechism, which, by the way, was
never explained. Yet the New Testament be-
longed to my play books ; I learnt in it to love

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