Man, I go offline for a weekend, and what happens?

From my angle, I taught my kids all the mythologies I knew of, including the current monotheisms, and I always called the stories myths. When the twins got old enough to be skeptical of santa and the easter bunny and zeus and the one just called "god" we would have long discussions about why so many people thought "god" (but not any of the gods with names like zeus or ra) was real. I don't recall them going through any phase of believing in "god" but not in santa; in fact, belief in santa outlasted all the others for quite a while.

My fear, here in these United States (well, one of my fears) is the encroachment of mythology into the realm of science. Teaching kids to ignore or refuse reality and cling to their parents' mythos is child abuse. Buggering the altar boy is child abuse. Threatening wee ones with torture for small wrongs is child abuse. Not sparing the rod is child abuse. But those aren't the sole purview of religion.