Are Myths Valuable?

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I think the real dilemma is, some people's inability to recognize that it's "poetic" truths, that are really worthy of the title "truth".

Absent of that we might as well just call things, useful, rather than truthful.

Atheists tend to overemphasize the importance of recognizing scientific facts, when in reality such facts are among the most superficial and shallow things we hold.

It is true that atheists and theists have entirely different definitions of, and standards for, truths.

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.

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Im saying they utilize much of same functions of myths, and not commenting on whether the arguments are true or not.

Those functions are less about the facts being presented but the sort of narrative that houses them, the elements that inspire atheists, to come out the closest, embrace the sort of clarity of their perspective, recognize the deception and delusion of others, motivate them to gather together, establish communities, in opposition to what they perceive as the dark forces of religion, embrace certain sets of heros perceive certain types of villains, the peddling of certain values, etc

So are you saying people will always act by myths, no matter how rational they pretend to be?

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