Ragnarok

"There were pictures and songs of gentle Jesus meek and mild. In one of them he preached in a clearing to a congregation of attentive curly animals, rabbits, a fawn, a squirrel, a magpie. The animals were more real than the divine-human figure. The thin child tried to respond to the picture, and failed.
They were taught to say praters. The thin child had an intuition of wickedness as she felt what she spoke wicked into a cotton-wool cloud of nothingness.
She was logical child, as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they prayed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good...
The thin child thought that these stories... were both human make-ups... Neither aspect made her want to write, or fed her imagination. They numbed it."

I picked this passage because I thought it gave a lot of insight into the girl's young mind. She's so young, yet she's already got the wisdom and logic to see that maybe the things she's being taught aren't true. I see her as being very smart for being skeptical, and in my opinion, people should learn to be more skeptical of what teachers teach us, because there are things to be gained from questioning what's presented as "true;" it's important to discover what is true for you personally.
The thin girl finds the stories from her mother's books to be more interesting than the stories taught to her in her scripture lessons, and another reason I picked this passage was because it resonated with me personally. I've tried a handful of times to devote myself to christianity, but it simply didn't click or make sense to me for many reasons, one of which is similar to the thin girl's perspective. This is highlighted in the last paragraph, and says that the stories of the religion simply do not spark the thin girl's imagination in any way.