How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)

[Arkilogue]

Got ourselves a run of the mill ret-conner, it would seem.  If you like these narratives (and I can understand that) then perhaps you should address them on their own terms rather than stretching them to fit your wholly unrelated, and modern (regardless of their factual accuracy), narratives?

Ancient people believed in  their narratives for their reasons...not yours.  They weren't referring to what you believe (or what you know), in those stories, they were referring to what they believed.  That you can make a model fit is an artifact of your ability and desire, but not of the meaning of the stories...or any knowledge they possessed.

They were referring to what they were told and the stories they have were given to them in whole by the "Gods".

Barring actually revelation from a deity is there any other possible way these subjective stories would be so similar and represent real scientific, recreated processes of universal order? Depends on if you think this is the first technological age of Man on this planet. There is much legendary data on some kind of world wide catastrophe or world war.

So say you are a refugee from the destruction of this previous world wide high tech age, now immersed in tribal/primitive societies. How might you preserve the technical knowledge you posses? Say you wanted to describe an electric eel to them? Would you tell them it has stacked electrocyte cells and when it flexes them all at once it can discharge a lethal amount of electricity? No, you'll tell them it shoots lightening bolts and stay the fuck away.

If you wanted to pass down stream through time technical knowledge of universal processes to a primitive culture, you encode it in the subjective stories of God/the Gods and it will pass itself down. They are the most viral stories around, with staying power long after they are no longer believed in.