>>4130
Historically, religion is a mythology pretending to be scientific.
Mythology is a way of getting to truth from the back side, through metaphor. You construct a story with the same emotional energy dynamics as the truth (this is what it means to 'resonate' - it resonates the way a board resonates with its fundamental sound frequency) and then examine the story to see what it can tell you about the truth.
Scientific truth is instead a detailed, mechanistic description. I sometimes call it the engineering description, because it's the kind of thing you need to build something.
However, mythology properly appreciated can most certainly lead to a scientific description, and engineering specs are often best understood through a mythology, depending on what you're using them for. E.g. a mythology of how a car works is more useful to the driver than an engine schematic.
Religious literalists are and were always the mistake. It's a necessary view for children, and it's always been true that many humans do not grow up, and retain their childist mythological literalism. Even hunter tribes have 'atheists' in the sense that some of them don't regard their myths as literally true.
The myths are supposed to be absurd when taken literally, as a hint that you're supposed to grow out of taking them literally.
There's been a good avatar of this truth lately in Jordan B. Peterson.