All religion, when studied in an objective manner as "history" (which, as someone else has pointed out, isn't objectively fact based either) is nothing more or less than a given culture's myths, and that includes Christianity. Some find their culture's religious/spiritual myths comforting and uplifting, others find them damaging and destructive. The difference seems to defy all logic, as the ways in which religious dogma is imposed upon us by our society/culture doesn't seem to matter to most people (ie, whether it is imposed lovingly and gently, or harshly and punitively).

If more people would be required to study comparative mythology, and were told that religion is not fact-based, or historically accurate, (ie, if we were allowed to be raised and educated without the blinders of our ancestors' religius dogma), the world would be a much finer, more enlightened place to live.

Secularism is the best thing to have happened to the planet, and I look forward hopefully to a day when my descendants won't have to put up with the superstitious dogma, the hate, the bigotry, and the violence of politically motivated religious conflict. In other words, my most fervent wishes are that the human race can quickly (for humans) transcend this dark era of human history, where religious dogma kept us deluded and divided.