Adherance to Religion

One of the most interesting questions through the first few chapters of Parable of the Sower is the question why Lauren chooses to allow herself to be baptized despite the fact that she clearly says that she does not subscribe to her father's church, religion, or god anymore. Religion is generally something that brings people together, and I guess that this begrudging obedience is more about her relationship with her father than her relationship with religion. Since her mother died while birthing her, and her fathers' parents died in a murder many years ago, Lauren is kind of all her father has left, and I am sure it would be very painful for her father to learn she rejects his faith.

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