A Modern Thinker

 Everyday you meet people, correct? And as you get to know them, you learn their likes, dislikes, personality, and character. You can also say that you learn what kind of thinker they are. There are all kinds of thinkers because everyone has different opinions. But what determines what kind of thinker you are is by how you were brought up. Your mind is blank when you're a baby, so obviously its up to your parents to pass on their thoughts and opinions about the world they live in. This may differ from one family to another. For example, a family that makes a lot of money is going to raise their children differently from a family that has less money.  

 Where you live also determines how you think. For instance, people from different regions in the United States differ in their thoughts and opinions about the world.   In the "bible belt" (and trust me, I know all about this because I live the "bible belt"), you can't walk out of a grocery store or any store for that matter without seeing a King James bible on the rack while your waiting to pay for your items. Now, the people that live in the "bible belt" are ALL about God, and do not like anything that goes against the bible, because they believe that the bible is the only thing that matters and that it is absolutely true, and they take it very literally. I have a friend that fits this exact profile, my friend believes that science is the devil and that it's all fake(yeah, I know right?). He believes that nothing matters other than the bible (but I don't want to go in too much detail, I'll save it for another discussion) but this is just how he thinks, this is what leads me to my point. I  am a modern thinker, because I was brought up to decide things on my own whether it be true or not. So that I can form my own opinions and no one else's. I  believe that as technology advances we must also, but that doesn't mean you don't believe in the bible if you have an Ipod in your ears while your surfing the Internet. When the bible was written they didn't know how the earth still worked and that there are many tiny little things called atoms that make up everything in the universe or that the earth revolved around the sun not the other way around. Technology can be a good thing and we must keep up with it, and you can still do that while you practice your religion. Science isn't the devil, if anything it's God letting us see what else there is, revealing this mysterious world we live in. And as a great man once said religion and science can grow together- Pope John Paul II. It is 2009, we do not use candles for light during the darkness, we do not have to ride horses or walk to where we want to go, and we don't have to kill to eat. People from the past would have loved to have what we have now in our daily lives, that's why people invented them. Technology is supposed to make life easier not to disprove God. It's time that people grow up and move with the times, and see for what the world really is.