Mystery and Religion

Life is an absurd game in which there are no explicit rules and the only purported answers come from institutions, our religions in particular; but that's not how a relationship with God is supposed to work. Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, Mohammed, all found God for themselves and their lessons to us are not ends in themselves but are instead paths to the divine ("I am the Way"). Even the great scientific prophets Newton, Einstein, and Bohr (among others) blazed their own trail and broke with convention. Evolution does not arise from status quo but from revolution. The great prophets were not themselves divine anymore than you are or I am. They each forged their own path to the divine and THAT should be the true goal of any spiritual life; not to be a devout follower but instead to be a spiritual hero, boldly confronting the great mystery of life.