Sometime in life we have all had to endure a “know it all.”

Maybe it was that annoying kid in class who read the dictionary for fun and whose hand was always waving wildly in the air while claiming “Oh, I know, I know.”

Know-it-alls plague us later in life as well.

The co-worker who always has a “better way” to do things.
The naysayer who “just knows” that your new idea is doomed to failure.
The clueless who claim they “know” just how you feel.
The powerful who “know” what is best for the powerless.
The relative who is the resident know-it-all of the family.

The claim of “knowing it all,” of having “absolute knowledge” guarantees the same results as “absolute power” . . . absolute disaster.

In the first few centuries after Christ, there were lots of different religious practices based…