So you are a literalist. Many people see most of what we understand as metaphorical. There was in fact a recent PhD biologist who feels science in science and religion religion. Most of us are not so extreme, but I suspect that there is no one who does not hold at least two paradigms on some aspects of existence - which other people may find makes no sense.
When you start by accounting for all of the unrealities we deal with (human concepts of time, rationality, causation, consciousness) you may also come to the conclusion that what is important is that people use useful and appropriate paradigms.
an example: in a court room you use legal definitions of responsibility, sanity, free will. They often seem to have little to do with the world as I understand it. I have operated in the court room, and abide by those paradigms - just with a little more humility than someone else might.
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