Knowing the Holy Spirit, and Nothing Else

AT ANY SENIOR CENTER in America, there are certainly some strange and interesting characters, people who have had lifetimes of interesting experiences, who have on account of these experiences developed some curious notions about life. Some of them think they have have witnessed and done just about everything, and they are wrong. Many of them think they have had a lot of hard knocks, and they are always quite correct. Those with the least education express their opinions with the greatest certainty. Those with the most educated are most aware of their limitations, their lack of knowledge. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. The less we know, the more we think we know. Einstein said "we don't know one millionth of one percent of anything." Einstein knew a lot, but didn't he did. The senior center I attend has a man, a very curious fellow with very curious notions, who is illiterate, and a religious fanatic, a perfect example. He says he once had a high I.Q.. I am smart enough to ask him what happened to it. He told me that he never learned to read because he developed a mental block of some sort after being sexually abused as a child. When i offered to teach him to read, and explained that he is perfectly capable of learning, he produced some incoherent reason not to be interested, something about not needing the skill, that he loses nothing by not knowing how. He calls well educate intelligent people "educated idiots". I'm sure he knows better, but prefers living in his fantasy that education is unimportant. It is difficult to imagine the pain and frustration of being illiterate in this world. Denial and defense mechanisms seem almost inevitable. He listens to the Bible on audio, he says, and for many years he dragged a big white wooden cross on wheels all over town, until he got too old I offered to pull the cross for him in exchange for allowing me to teach him to read, but no dice. he avoided answering my offer. Then, I offered to drag the cross in return for nothing; why not help a friend? Like most people who actually read the bible, he knows very little about it. You tired of having somebody trying to shove scripture and religion down your throat, so you call their bluff. He doesn't know how many books are in the New Testament, the Old testament, who wrote them, when they were written, or when the bible first appeared in print, or under whose supervision. Red flags for a religious fanatic. He doesn't know, or didn't, until I told him, when the King James version appeared, who King James was, or why it appeared. But one thing he knows for damned sure: if a person has received the Holy spirit, it doesn't matter what else one knows or doesn't know, nothing else matters. If a person hasn't received the Holy spirit, nothing else matters. And in any case, educated people are idiots.....PLEASE SHARE THIS SITE WITH OTHERS. WE SEEK TO PUBLISH ORIGINAL, CREATIVE ESSAYS.