Are Myths Valuable?

[Alan V]

Atheists and Theists brain share billions of years of development in common. To think that their brains recognize reality (truth) much differently, as the result of a few years, or decades of religious vs non-religious development, is just non-sense. 

Theist and atheists may share a variety of different beliefs, but how their biological brains acquired them, are more likely to have much more in common, than not.

How we are biologically programmed to perceive the world is not the same thing as how we abstract or spin truths from what we perceive. Rather, people are subject to cultural and political indoctrination in how we make such interpretations. So it's as if you are saying that Democrats and Republicans essentially agree on most everything.

I’m saying is that reason/rationality is a slave to ones passions, myths are what house these passions.

If that was the case, then it wouldn't be reason/rationality at all, but just passions/rationalizations. That's a rather cynical conclusion from the given facts.

While I have no doubt that myths can mobilize passions, that's a very good reason to avoid believing in them, wouldn't you say?