Why Being Closed-Minded Can Be A Good Thing

Candace OwensFebruary 9, 2023

Do you think it’s better to be closed-minded or open-minded?

Society would have you believe that being open-minded is better than being closed-minded, regardless of what. Yet that’s not always the case — particularly if it means being permissive of sin.

To illustrate this point, I’d 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.

She was truly a pure soul — the sort of girl who didn’t even want to go to college because she knew she was going to miss her parents too much. When she looked into my family’s freezer, she was shocked to see how much ice cream we had. It wasn’t even that much, but her family rarely consumed sugar. Peanut butter was her favorite treat.

Because I’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.

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.

It was a complete departure from my age. I was exactly the opposite. I couldn’t 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.

But then I decided to go down to Tennessee, where I met these young women who are really good people.

My intern was accepted to college. Her time there didn’t last long. She made it one semester before she decided college wasn’t 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’t handle the course load.

She left because she knew what she wanted — and she didn’t 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.

Many would argue that she is extremely closed-minded. Their argument might be that she’s young, she needs to experience life, and how could she possibly know what she wants?

That’s 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.

Let me tell you — with a few swipes on her Instagram page — that former, sweet intern of mine restored my faith in humanity.

Her Instagram bio featured a Bible quote. She posted small photos with captions like “He gave it all up for me and so I give it all to Him.” — obviously referring to Jesus Christ. Her friends’ profiles were the same way.

I thought: “How does someone raise a child like this in today’s America?”

Another friend decided to leave college after her first semester. She just wanted to be a photographer and get married, and that’s exactly what she did. A friend of hers, an 18-year-old girl, got married. They seem to all get married young.

I’m not kidding you — you look at them and think, “What decade are we in, 1920? How is it these girls look so happy, so fulfilled?”

Well, perhaps they’re 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.

They’re told the only way to find a life worth living is to be “open-minded.” Accepting secular ideas and ways of living is a common way to do this.

You will be where you want to land. I’d argue it leads us often to sin.

It is a belief that a culture can be raised believing that “being accepting of others no matter what” is the greatest good, then we end up with the very sickly and twisted country that we see today.

This is the result of so many people aspiring to reach that level. “exploration” It has led to a very miserable society. The sort of filth we saw at the Grammys on Sunday — that outwardly demonic performance by Sam Smith — is the result of being “open-minded.”

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? “tolerant”