Or as Dave Allen said, after dismissing religion but realising his paying audiences might harbour superstition still, "May your God go with you."

I don't have a hang up with AD/BC. As it is only significant in a literal sense to a decreasing small number of people, it remains a quaint heritage term to the rest of us. Our society, accept it or otherwise, has been built with a Christian superstition thread in it through the ages, and like not walking under ladders or tossing salt over your shoulder, superstition can have an irrational but strong pull on you.

For instance, pete saying that the large number of creation myths by different societies leads to feeling there is something in it. Superstition is very suggestive and not everyone can rationalise to the same level so whilst ever fairy stories exist, the traditions will be upheld by those impressed by them.

Although to say the Bible is not misogynist is stretching it a bit eh?