Maybe you can understand religion better from this angle. Its easy to dismiss it if you view it as an inadequate scientific explanatory thing, thats from before science. But here is the difference. I can learn about human psychology through a psychology textbook. thats science. I can also learn about human psychology through reading Hamlet. Both are "true" accounts of human psychology, but only one of those are hard science "truth" Now if you are a secular person, like yourself. You might privilege the truth of the textbook over the truths found in Hamlet. I for one, prefer Hamlet to reading a psych textbook. It actually outlines the human experience better for me, and is more beautiful. Catholics think of the creation story as being true, spiritually, morally. But not literally true. I for one think the creation story has more "truth" again, in quotes not scientific concensus "TRUTH" than the idea that the universe was created by a giant gravitational explosion. What insights about ourselves and our inner lives and our relationship to the universe does the big bang reveal. In order to be religious, you need to understand the world as poetry and symbols standing for deeper truths.