My opinion is the same as sender Spike's. Mythology is presented as history in every religion, not just Christianity. Isn't that what religion is all about? Criticising it as if it is only Christianity that does it seems to reveal some anti Christianity bias on your part, which has to make us question your objectivity, which on other subjects you write about appears good, but, targeting only Christianity with religious criticism actually doesn't make sense.
What happened to live and let live? :)
To me there has to be some basis to the mythology of every religion.
Would you say that the story of the creation of the Golem, or the slaying of Goliath by David, was fact or fiction?
Imho, religions, all religions exist for good reason. To me they are an attempt to hang on to the memories of long lost intelligence, which remaining folk didn't directly understand, if we take intelligence to mean maybe knowledge some beings had, who had been around a lot longer to evolve than some others.
Lost religions, like lost races, surely isn't a good thing, actually it has to be a Trajedy, when lessons from more advanced beings in history are lost, and if we are honest, there are some messages that we should realise are existential to ignore.
The central tack of Jesus, as far as I know, as someone brought up as a Christian myself, so maybe biased from that point of view, was to criticise certain economic practices and their effects, where those effects became things to be concerned about.
I personally went through a large part of my life as a committed atheist, from being an unquestioning believer in Christianity,, I lost faith completely when I lost my sister who was three years younger than me, she was seven, she died of kidney cancer, a painful end which came finally on an operating table. She was innocent and cute, she never harmed a soul in her life, I could never understand why she was "chosen" so I threw away religion, thinking religion to mean really just Christianity.
But life since, spent in industry as someone fully invested with "big" achievements and even bigger ambitions, brought me to studying the physical energy systems of humanity and nature, and I am seeing many things now rhyming with the messages of many religions, including some errors in my own ambitions.
When we analyse the systemic effects of the same economic practices Jesus was critical of, now still at the heart of the "modern" economy, using modern tools including Ai, and find that these practices, which might have been necessary in history, are actually physically unsustainable, thus now an existential issue, imminently threatening all of life, due to the handling of physical energy underlying all money, we have to notice some parallels between the messages of Jesus, and what we are seeing now proven scientifically.
Take usury for example. Why do we never see that word in modern language? Yet this appears to be at the heart of the global energy problem. We can show this using modern systems Engineering tools and techniques, and it is confirmed by Ai, which is even more capable of analysing the entire system for dependencies, identifying causes, and effects which were difficult if not impossible to show previously.
Is that not a more interesting and potentially valuable line of scientific inquiry than questioning the historical valididity or relevance of Christianity?