Catholicism, Christianity and Knowledge!

As children in a Catholic country, our parents, grandparents, and our teachers in schools start to teach us about our religion, about the man called Jesus Christ and his teachings. As children, we saw Jesus as our protector, our safeguard and our idol, but as we enter the teen age years, we start asking questions about our religion, about ourselves and about our future. We start feeling a change in our body; a change in our way of thinking, we start being rebellious. I am nineteen years old, and I am living the last year as a teenager, and of course, I have my own views about Catholicism and Christianity. I see in Catholicism a religion of condemnation about many natural aspects of human being; condemnations about homosexuality, about pre-marriage intercourses, about different types of families etc. On the other hand, I am an admirer of the social aspect of Christ’s teachings, but not of the religious aspect. I can’t believe in the Catholic Church when its members have enormous richness in their churches and cathedrals, and they do nothing concrete to reduce poverty. I learned that Jesus was a man of the poor, a man who helped the poor, not a king living in a temple and sitting on a golden chair! Superstition is not the way to convince our and future generations, because we’re living in an era where we have access to knowledge, to the internet. In our era, we know that our planet is not the center of the universe, and our sun is just one of billions of stars in millions of galaxies, we know that the Jewish race is a race like others, and not some type of a supreme race chosen by God. Knowledge is the key for truth, and we are the generation who has easily access to knowledge, trough the internet, and for that, we have the responsibility to teach our children, not what we believe, but how to make their own searches and formulate their own opinions.