Compare the myths of the life of Jesus, to the myths of the life of the Egyptian god Horus, another divine hero-god representing wisdom, truth, purity, and goodness.

Even those Westerners who don't believe the gospels to be inerrant and inspired by god, still cling to a desire to believe that Jesus was an historical figure, and that Christian mythology is rooted in historic fact.

It is not. The vast majority of religious historians and scholars begin with the premise that Christian mythology will be proven to be historic fact, if they just look long and hard enough, and ignore other equally rational explanations and interpretations of historical evidence.