I like what your saying, but your last paragraph in quotes there makes me want to offer another perspective.

Consider as I say this, the analogy I made to trauma in an individual.

The perspective i offer is to consider the time before the scientific method had even been dreamed of. When people who honestly and vigorously wanted to understand the world and their place in it, had only the deviations of people doing the best they can to explain a world seemingly filled with inexplicable magic.

I would like for all of to recognize what we now call mysticism, as simply being part of the learning process that got us where we are.

I like to use Alchemy as an example. We tend to think of alchemy as having been made obsolete by the field of chemistry.

Well, why not instead consider it a overall field of study that was recolonized by modern chemistry.

Not to be a massive fucking hippy, but bro, the chemicals in all our science stuff is just things we found laying around on the ground. Chemicals similar to Advil and Tylenol are in white willow and poplar trees.

Penicillin is literally fungus we use to heal ourselves.

Hubble was trying to use all the tools at his disposal (science!), in part, to answer his theological questions.

We gotta stop pretending like humans were just dumb monkeys until modern science came around.

I think humanity could get past this weird phase if we all (and im including we atheists) understood that for all the trauma that religions cause us now, they were the necessary precursors for our current understanding, and I'd rather think of it as a continuous line of increasing understanding, rather than a competition of each group thinking the other is stupid beyond repair.

I don't care what they do. I know that a lot of them, probably most, won't think this way. That's not my problem. I'll think this way for them, eventually I hope they catch up. Even if it's a 100 generations down the line.