What value do you see in studying theology in concerns to Christianity?

[EgoDeath]

Because there's nothing akin to a scientific way of thinking or understanding of the world found in religious myths, and books, etc... Science is a way of looking at the world in some sort objective mechanical fashion, it churns a certain kind of thinking or systematic reasoning through certain elements of the world. 

Religious writing don't look, sound, or talk, the way we do when we talk about science, or sciencey things (AIG and others aside). They resembles whats more akin to novelists perception of reality, than a scientist.

You're missing the point. Of course there was no "scientific" way of thinking in the bronze ages; modern science didn't even being to develop until the 16th century.

That doesn't mean, however, that religious texts, stories and/or myths weren't an honest attempt at understanding the world around them.

How are you so sure that, for example, the concept of the Sun God Ra sailing across wasn't taken literally in ancient Egypt? Taking this concept for what it is, we can believe that they literally thought this with at least some amount of confidence. Is it also possible that they took it as a metaphor and were simply content with saying, "We don't actually know what the sun is or why it behaves that way?" Probably not. Humans like to know what is happening in the world around them. We're rarely content with simply saying, "I don't know." That's where your idea doesn't hold up.

People just other them, what do some illiterate goat herders have to tell us about ourselves?

Once again, I never heard anyone say that until you did just now. You seem to be attributing this view to atheists in particular. That's how it's coming across at least. The problem is, I've never actually heard an atheist express this sentiment. This seems to be your projection alone.