You'll find me quite hard to ignore, Joe! Good luck with that!

I think that humans have an inherent ability to understand myth and fiction."

Ha. The evidence against you is that billions of people have been persuaded that myth is truth, that there is a God, that there was a real Jesus who worked miracles, etc. What you should be asking yourself, instead of telling us how all this mythology is so meaningful, is why we need it at all, when the world is already such a wonderful place, so full of non-supernatural magic. But you won't ask yourself that. You've been well and truly got at, old chap!