I'm not ascribing malice to parents who tell them them that Baby Jesus is true. I said, if you look back, that they often don't realise that they are telling lies because of the way they themselves have been fed the myths as truth. The deliberate lying comes from your religious elders who tell the tale that way in spite of years studying theology. And I have never said that the theory of evolution is true. Evolution is true and the theory is a very good explanation for it (very good because there are masses of evidence). Yes we tell children stories, but we set them in the context in which they will know that they are just stories, very good ones at that. But you expose children to religion in a way that removes that context. In evidence, I present you with every prayer and hymn that you ever get them to say or sing. They are replete with assertions and certainty. And even if you yourself inculcate that open-minded approach, which I don't doubt, you may send them to schools at which those things are completely out of your control.