Why Aren't Atheists Trad?

I know the actual answer to this. The actual answer is that belief in the supernatural is part of almost every human tradition. The personality type that likes trying new things is obviously more likely to be atheist, but it doesn’t seem like “trying new things is good” follows from atheism at all.

I feel like it should seem more weird to more people that belief in the supernatural is associated with following existing traditions, and lack of belief in the supernatural is associated with trying weird new things.

To me it seems like, if there is nothing outside of the nature, then the only information we have about what works is history, tradition, whatever you want to call “what has worked for people so far.”

But if there is something outside of nature, then “the history of what has worked so far” is not the only possible source of information about what you should do. If something exists outside of nature/history, then that outside thing could contain information about human behavior that isn’t contained in the history of human behavior that has been tried so far.

You actually do see a lot of weird cults, “God said I could do [x weird thing].” This is why I asked “Why aren’t atheists trad?” instead of asking “Why aren’t religious people radical?” Mostly [x weird thing] does not work. Sometimes it does. Early Christianity is an example of people with supernatural beliefs doing the unprecedented things that their outside information told them would work. A lot of the things that early Christians thought God had told them to do….didn’t work. But compared to other cults, a lot more of their divine revelations did work. Now those things are trad.

But I’m not that interested in religious people being radical or religious people beiing trad, because I’ve seen both. I’m surprised by how many atheists I see who seem fundamentally interested in trying new things, and how few atheists I see who are desperately clinging to tradition as the only raft in the sea of an uncaring world, where no outside help is coming.