Master Vigil, Try not to use your humor,intellect to twist or demean what I'm saying here,but if you ever have a personal encounter with Jesus Christ and that won't come thru logic and reasoning.
You will not be the same man,i gaurantee,you will not think the same,act the same or even feel the same way as you once did.
Not that you want that experience,but just to say if it you had a genuine conversion and touch from God, you would radically change inside and out, your views, perception the same inspiration God used on the writer's of the scriptures he uses on those who trust Him.
You then would understand how the Holy Spirit can influence and inspire a man's life, outside of that you will never understand.
You may make some comments ridiculing everything I talk about, belittle and generalize the Spirit of God and even group His power,presence influece and experience among other religions and beliefs, but it is not me you offend.
How can you possibly think for a moment that you earn the right to generalize and opinionize on the Holy Spirit and His ability to touch, change and inspire a man.
Can you comprehend who or how the Holy Spirit ,( God's manifested presence,power,influence and/or agent) ,changes peoples lives, inspires men to ,write ,speak, pray, teach and for that matter interpret and understand who God truly is.
If you have ever lived outside your own country as I have,and had a feeling of home sick,feeling alone, peculiar, unfamiliarity, being a stranger etc. you would understand and appreciate what true hope is, as I experienced longing to come home,
When I say my hope is heaven you have no idea what that means, knowing when you die you will live forever ,that is true and ultimate hope that you will never comprehend unless you expereince God's touch.
To have hope in today and this life only does not exactly excite me knowing how uncertain our society and mortality is.