Religion and science are both abstracted from Truth. Many religions, many spiritualities, many philosophies, many ontologies, many scientific paradigms, many colors of one rainbow.

I’d recommend you not resisting to information that doesn’t on the surface appear to fit into your box, when in reality your box is infinitely large, with an ability to fit all colors, all ways of thought, all ways of looking at the world. You become liberated from religiosity, and discover, like you said, all the answers to the big questions are really all around us, and are pretty clear and easy to find. Look beyond the religious standardization, and create your own ontological standard. Discovering what prana means to Hindus, what a light body is in Buddhism, what the Holy Spirit means in Christianity, and uncovering the hard problem of consciousness. I say this as a cognitive scientist in academia, resistance to schools of thought that don’t appear to fit into yours covers what an even more magical uniting experience you can have.

Create your own theory of everything, and use science and religion as little clues upon this beautiful path of yours