An armed man need not fight.
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.