Imagining atheism

Mary Kenny doubts that the teaching of atheism can be made interesting. She writes:

[B]ut where are the stories? Where is the narrative? Where are the images that illuminate a child's mind and develop that sense of history and purpose? Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; Lot's wife turning to a pillar of salt... [etc.]
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All in all, the imaginative resources of atheism remain pretty thin.
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I pity the child deprived of the life of the imagination that is illuminated by the light of faith.

The first thing I thought of on reading Kenny's article was a passage from Primo Levi:

He told me his story... it was certainly a sorrowful, cruel and moving story; because so are all our stories, hundreds of thousands of stories, all different and all full of a tragic, disturbing necessity. We tell them to each other in the evening, and they take place in Norway, Italy, Algeria, the Ukraine, and are simple and incomprehensible like the stories in the Bible. But are they not themselves stories of a new Bible?

My point in reproducing this passage is not to suggest that those teaching atheism must necessarily draw upon the experiences of the victims of Nazi barbarity, though they well might. It's only to counter-argue against Mary Kenny that the lack of imagination here is entirely hers. Charged with a curriculum that included the teaching of atheism, any teacher worth employing would know how to draw on the whole long record of human endeavour, endurance and creativity - not excluding the contents of the Bible - in fulfilling his or her task.