and that stories such as those of the Trinity and the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary were simply a joke.
It was disgraceful, they said, that such rubbish was peddled about to-day. This was by no means my way of thinking.
Even where I had doubts, the whole experience of my childhood taught me to believe in the efficacy of a godly life
such as that led by my parents, which I knew to be neither contemptible nor hypocritical.
On the contrary, now as before, I had the greatest reverence for the spirit of religion.
Only Demian had accustomed me to consider and explain the stories and articles of belief from a more liberal and more personal point of view,
a point of view in which fantasy and imagination had their share.
At least, I always took great pleasure and enjoyment in the interpretations he suggested to me.
To be sure much seemed to me too crude; such as the affair of Cain.
And once, during the preparation for confirmation, I was terrified by a conception, which, if that were possible, seemed to me even still more daring.
The master had been speaking of Golgotha.
The Biblical account of the Passion and Death of Christ had, from my earliest years, made a deep impression on me.
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