Nano-machines: Machinery on a microscopic level that is able to perform tasks with thousands, if not millions, of other nano-machines in an environment.

One of the crazy things about nanotechnology that I love is that you could control all these tiny, itty bitty robots and make them do your bidding.

Why have to pay for expensive surgeries and medication for blood clotting problems when you could simply have nano-machines enter your bloodstream, find any clotting in your blood vessels, and break down whatever it is that is hindering the human body.

While these nano-machines are in your body, they can do more than just play demo man with your arteries and veins. If you have diabetes that requires daily doses of insulin, nano-machines can have dispensers inside them that release insulin and also act as a regulation tool that relays any changes in your body to yourself or your doctor via wireless signal.

With all these ideas of being able to simply improve the body with machines, does it conflict with the ideology of destroying the temple that God has given us?

To some people, the idea of augmenting the human body in such as way could go against God’s plan, seeing as it promotes evolving in ways that were not meant to happen.

Because of this, religion and science are more connected than most believe.

Technology is growing quickly, but meets opposition everyday.

For me, I believe that technology should be used in whatever ways it can to improve the body, since I cannot imagine the idea that we should limit ourselves and shun all things that can change the human body in any way, shape or form.

We are given the tools to create, destroy and improve for a reason.

Nano-machines, on a larger scale, could be used in the operation of replacing a good amount of the human body.

Lose an arm or leg in a tragic accident? Simply replace it with machines!

The great thing about it is that you will become better than you were before. Being able to lift and punch way more than your human arm could have ever done with steroids is an exciting idea to think about.

Your new mechanical arm or leg is somehow injured? The nano-machines inside can repair it given enough time, just as a human arm would when reacting to a cut.

Nano-machines may seem like science-fiction but think of the technological advancements our civilization has made in the past 20 years compared to, say, 1700-1800s. We can only grow from here.

Religion can be spoken about freely, yet we tread softly when publically mentioning it.

But, the hardest idea to grasp is that having the right to spread religious awareness is certainly not the same as pushing beliefs on others.

While people reserve the right to practice religious freedom and to speak without restraint about any faith they choose, forcing others to listen isn’t freedom of speech; it’s harassment.

There are over 127 major religions and seven billion people on earth with seven billion different views of God. Some love Him, some fear Him, some question His existence and some are still searching for Him.

Some will decide that God plays no role in the trials and tribulations of life, while others will find faith the moment they see their newborn child take the first breath of being.

Whether we discover where we spiritually belong in a pew on Sunday morning or on a lonely drive with no destination, the journey to finding or forgetting God is what determines our views. We can’t be told what and who to believe in, or to even believe in anything at all.

What we learn, who we meet and the challenges we face are what we remember when we stand before Him, not the church members that knock on our front doors, or the people that stand in the quad condemning us all to hell.

And if the church goer at your front door changes your perspective, let them. Be baptized in one church, change your mind, and be baptized in another. Let what you learned in biology class make you question evolution and the powers above.

Learning from life experiences and questioning God’s ways isn’t sin; it’s human. It’s human to change emotionally, mentally, and spiritually when physical surroundings change. It’s human to simply be curious and indecisive.

Faith only exists because there are people that believe strongly enough in it to make it a reality and a way of life. Without doubters and differences, the strength of religion would never have anything to be measured against.

Because of that, religion without true belief is weak.

Never practice out of habit, don’t follow just because your parents or friends do, and don’t ever think one religion is superior to another. In a time that seems to have the explanation for everything in a test tube or on a database, people believing in any God at all is a miracle in itself.