{"id":1841604,"date":"2023-02-09T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841604"},"modified":"2023-02-09T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:35:27","slug":"why-being-closed-minded-can-be-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-being-closed-minded-can-be-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Being Closed-Minded Can Be A Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-being-closed-minded-can-be-a-good-thing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Do you think it\u2019s better to be closed-minded or open-minded?<\/p>\n<p>Society would have you believe that being open-minded is better than being closed-minded, regardless of what. Yet that\u2019s not always the case \u2014 particularly if it means being permissive of sin.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate this point, I\u2019d like to share the story of my amazing intern who worked for me when I first moved to Tennessee. She was finishing up her high school education. She was the most innocent, faith-filled 18 year-old I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>She was truly a pure soul \u2014 the sort of girl who didn\u2019t even want to go to college because she knew she was going to miss her parents too much. When she looked into my family\u2019s freezer, she was shocked to see how much ice cream we had. It wasn\u2019t even that much, but her family rarely consumed sugar. Peanut butter was her favorite treat.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;d never seen anyone like her before, I thought she must be an exception. Then she began to babysit for us. A few of her friends assisted us on the side.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? The girls in her friend group were all just like her. They were all on fire for God. As an extracurricular activity, they held a Bible study between themselves. They were true Christians and quite different from any other American girl today.<\/p>\n<p>It was a complete departure from my age. I was exactly the opposite. I couldn\u2019t wait to get out of the house and go to college. I just wanted to be together with my boyfriend. It was the norm at high school.<\/p>\n<p>But then I decided to go down to Tennessee, where I met these young women who are really good people.<\/p>\n<p>My intern was accepted to college. Her time there didn\u2019t last long. She made it one semester before she decided college wasn\u2019t for her and she returned home. She was bright, it should be noted. She was awarded scholarships, and she had a 4.3 GPA. She was not some dummy who couldn\u2019t handle the course load.<\/p>\n<p>She left because she knew what she wanted \u2014 and she didn\u2019t need a degree for it. She wanted to be a mom, stay-at-home mother and have 10 children. Her boyfriend was the same Christian faith as hers and she had been in a relationship for many years. They wanted it.<\/p>\n<p>Many would argue that she is extremely closed-minded. Their argument might be that she\u2019s young, she needs to experience life, and how could she possibly know what she wants?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the world would tell you anyway. To find out how this argument went, I visited her Instagram account recently to see her daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you \u2014 with a few swipes on her Instagram page \u2014 that former, sweet intern of mine restored my faith in humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Her Instagram bio featured a Bible quote. She posted small photos with captions like \u201cHe gave it all up for me and so I give it all to Him.\u201d \u2014 obviously referring to Jesus Christ. Her friends\u2019 profiles were the same way.<\/p>\n<p>I thought: \u201cHow does someone raise a child like this in today\u2019s America?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another friend decided to leave college after her first semester. She just wanted to be a photographer and get married, and that\u2019s exactly what she did. A friend of hers, an 18-year-old girl, got married. They seem to all get married young.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not kidding you \u2014 you look at them and think, \u201cWhat decade are we in, 1920? How is it these girls look so happy, so fulfilled?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, perhaps they\u2019re so positively different and refreshing because they are not allowing themselves to be tempted by what their peers, Hollywood, and the Left tell them will make them happy.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re told the only way to find a life worth living is to be \u201copen-minded.\u201d Accepting secular ideas and ways of living is a common way to do this.<\/p>\n<p>You will be where you want to land. I&#8217;d argue it leads us often to sin.<\/p>\n<p>It is a belief that a culture can be raised believing that \u201cbeing accepting of others no matter what\u201d is the greatest good, then we end up with the very sickly and twisted country that we see today.<\/p>\n<p>This is the result of so many people aspiring to reach that level. \u201cexploration\u201d It has led to a very miserable society. The sort of filth we saw at the Grammys on Sunday \u2014 that outwardly demonic performance by Sam Smith \u2014 is the result of being \u201copen-minded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to imagine anyone watching this and thinking that the singers, dancers or anyone else who sees it, are getting any benefit from it. Who would think so? \u201ctolerant\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think it\u2019s better to be closed-minded or open-minded? Society would tell you that being open-minded is always better, no matter what. Yet that\u2019s not always the case \u2014 particularly if it means being permissive of sin. To illustrate this point, I\u2019d like to share the story of my amazing intern who worked for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":1649056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18229],"class_list":["post-1841604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-closed-minded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}