How Did Louis Ménéra Criticize Religion

: This document was written at the same time as the enlightened period. It is a journal of Jacques – Louis Ménétra, a master glazier, who went to Paris to start his own business and at that same time, he met Rousseau, one of many enlightenment thinkers, and discover that he had a sense of adventure and criticism just like Rousseau. In these part of his journal he describes a conversation with a curate, about many issues of the time, but mostly about the religious problem. It seems that in this document, Ménétra has an intellectual way of thinking about the Roman Catholic Church, that it was a strong characteristic of people that participated in the enlightenment period. He criticizes the church way of teaching people. His journal describes a day in Paris with a friend, where Ménétra was challenged to play tennis. After the tennis match, he was invited for a drink by the priest.
After a long time of talk, the subject of religion came in. He speaks about how a man who has a strong belief in God suffered in the past. How they were tricked by the mystery of the indulges, and how they spend money for a piece of paper that has no meaning. Ménétra truly believes that
These people that started to challenge the Church were philosophers, writers, physicists, and even priests that started to published their thoughts against the Church, they began to change the population minds, started some revolutions, and also to illumined people that thought they were in a dark