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I could relate more to
Brandt’s essay than any of the others that we have read so far. I don’t
exactly relate to what his experiences are but the opinions of one of the
parents he mentions in his essay. He really tries to examine and research
this question of religion among children. He talks about a secular
society, which got me a little confused. It sounded as if he just through
in the word to make the essay sound more intellectual. He really does not
stress that phrase as much as he should have. There was a part in the
essay where he says the parents who are religious are able to answer their
children’s questions about religion. My only response to that was is it
so wrong not to know all the answers to your children’s questions? If it
is not religion they are asking about, then I am sure they will ask about
something else the parent doesn’t know about. In the one story about the
parents who sent their children to Sunday school when they never practiced
that religion and they still don’t attend any church, I did not quite
understand until I read two pages later. Another set of parents who also
send their children to Sunday school even though they do not attend church
themselves made a really excellent point in which I absolutely agreed
with. Brandt said, “he thinks that if they don’t give her a religious
background they will be depriving her of a choice later on. If she had
the background, she can always reject it when she gets older, he says; if
he doesn’t, there will be nothing to reject but nothing to affirm,
either.” This statement should have summed up the whole essay for
Brandt. This quote should have been placed toward the end or he should
have at least referred back to it at the end. He seems to agree with it
but still never refers back. Perhaps he did not read into it as much as I
did. The fact that Brandt also mentioned famous people also caught my eye
because the only people he mentioned were psychologists. This is
interesting to me since I did take psychology this year and recently I am
taking sociology. As I learn more about these people they are more
considered scientists and I know people that study things like that do not
take religion into consideration when searching for scientific answers.
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