Socrates

Today in school, I learned about a guy named Socrates. He was a Greek Philosopher back in ancient Greek. He had the idea that the Greek gods weren't responsible for everything. He often questioned people's knowledge by asking them questions and narrowing down what they actually knew, besides what they were just told to believe. People started getting angry that he was proving that they were wrong or incorrect. Later on, because he was blamed for disobeying the gods and ruining the minds of young people that he had taught, he was sentenced to die. When I thought about this, I began to think how unfair that is. Just because he expressed his own view of life, they killed him. And I thought that Athens, (Where Socrates lived) had democracy. In democracy, people rule themselves, and they are free to do anything. But when Socrates only just questioned people's beliefs and shared what he thought, he got killed? That doesn't sound like democracy to me. Socrates thought that some people in ancient Greece believed in the Greek Gods and goddesses because that's what they were told to believe. He was convinced that they didn't actually have the freedom to believe in what they wanted to, because they were only taught to believe in Greek gods, because that's what everyone else believed in. When I think of the world today, I'm reminded of our freedom to do or believe in anything we want to, and I will always be thankful for that freedom.