Christianity: What I Was Taught In Catechism Class

After being in this class for a couple of weeks now, I have realized that Christianity is so much different then what I was taught in Catechism class growing up. Every Monday up until ninth grade, I would drive my way over to religion class to listen to the teacher preach about Catholicism. From this, I gained only a slight view of what my religion entailed. The views were very one sided and not opened for interpretation, which made me have one select vision as to what Catholicism was. I never learned about other Christian religions or was taught about how influential Judaism was to Christianity. This past week, as I was reading chapter three, it never dawned on me that Christianity was a religion that took years to start up. Little did I know, that there

Or did they just want to shield us from the conflicts within Christianity and only show us the good? For some reason, it seemed to bother me a little that I was never taught about the negative aspects of Christianity and anything controversial was never touched upon. I like to discover and know more about how my religion started and where it came up and I never seemed to have those questions answered until now. Same thing goes for the bible. Wondering who made the bible, I always thought that God somehow put it together. This may seem silly, but I was very naive to the fact that humans put the bible together for their present time. How the bible was formed was a question I always wanted to know, but never got the answer to. Little facts like that are important when learning about Christianity and I felt as if I was never taught about the history of Christianity. The only thing I was taught was simple aspects like the Seven Deadly Sins, The 10 Commandments, or basic bible stories like Noah’s Ark. Again, even when learning these components of the bible, I was taught in a very narrow view. My questions were never answered and from this, I got no real