Look, a 'need for myth' must be stronger than a need for rationality, or perhaps both coexist in any individual human at differing or the same times, or perhaps the exist to differing degrees in different humans.
I guess what I was saying is that the assertion that 'we don't need myth' may actually be false, then the person who is inclined to need it finds it nonetheless when he or she rejects religion. They find it in government, or in science, or who knows where. They become radical ecology freaks worried about the End of Gaia as we Know it, the Apocalpse of Doom, the hurricanes, the 20 foot high wall of water that is coming for us.
Some of them, you know they'd be less annoying if they'd just stuck with religion instead of 'progressing'....
Humans are of byzantine complexity, and can be one thing at one moment and seem to be something completely different the next. The religion of Atheism nonwithstanding...I suggest then that you can only be truly free if you reject, along with the traditional religions, the religion of Atheism and other modern progressive delusions.
You seem to be confused about atheism. Atheism is not a religion in the same way not believing in unicorns is not a religion or not collecting stamps is not a hobby, there are atheistic religions like Buddhism, but atheism in itself is not a religion.
Yes, people believe in all kind of strange stuff, that's a consequence of our evolution because only the paranoids survive, for millions of years our species evolved somewhere in Africa, it was a hostile environment and the individuals who were not "paranoid" got out of the pool gene.
Here's a classic example, two individuals, 100000 years ago, there's a noise in the grass, it can be a lion, it can be the wind, the paranoid individual runs for a tree, the relaxed one stays, if it's the wind the two survived, the one who run lost a few calories, not a big cost, but if it is a lion the one who stays got eaten and his genes got out of the pool gene.
The cost for a false negative is far greater than the cost for a false positive, and the individuals who tend to believe in the occult agent pass their genes.
The same way with obeying authority, specially parents, if a parent says to a child don't pick that snake or don't eat those berries the individuals who obey tend to live longer and pass their genes.
If we had evolved in an environment without big predators, like the Galapagos where animals don't run from you because there are no big predators and no need for being paranoid, we probably would not have this characteristic.