Don't totally mean to sound rude about it, but institutionalized religion, like the Catholic Church, approaches these topics fundamentally in the wrong way in my opinion.

I could get into it, but honestly fuck these places and people running them. They've been a large factor in what I would consider "holding back" the human race and evolution of technology in the modern age..

I recently asked a Priest if a sentient artificially made intelligent system (AGI) could have a baptism, a conscious thing, would get through Turing test, all that...

His reply was short "absolutely not" ....I think he considers humans "playing god" to be satanic