It's a pity that the myths can't just be seen as myths. I loved Aesop's Fables when I was little and may even have picked up a few pieces of morality from them, but not for a single second did I not know they were myths. Myths can be colourful, absorbing and instructive. Jesus, or the committee that posed as Jesus, came up with some elegant and true teachings. Not all of it (I can't go along with turning the other cheek, giving all my stuff away, the misogynistic bits about putting your wife away, not worrying about tomorrow and, worst of all, believing without seeing evidence: shame on Thomas for getting that right then caving in!), but quite a lot of it. I won't accept the bad bits just because I'm told that God says they must be beyond question. We all know where that leads.