The truth is set of ideas about the existence of one totality that can be verified to be true by use of our senses and perceptions. 

A myth is an idea or a story about the existence of one totality that can not be verified to be true or false by use of our senses and perceptions. 

Those who claim that myth is truth, make themselves into liars. 

I believe we live in a global culture dominated by networks of such liars because of an alliance between the ruling class and the clergy that has lasted for thousands of years. 

In effect the ruling class buys influence over communities of faithful believers from religious leaders. 

In effect religious leaders use threats of abominable infernal punishment and promises of divine eternal reward to enslave members to the will of the ruling class. 

At some point, some in the ruling class must have figured out that if communities of faithful believers are lead to behave like racist, heterofascist, warmongers motivated to out work, out fight and out number competition, then their aggressive behavior will enable them to overrun their competition and enable the ruling class to dominate the global culture. 

The myths that these liars claim are truths are the product of a competition to survive that has selected for those religious traditions that lead communities of faithful believers to aggressively out work, out fight and out number competition. 

Therefore all of the mythology about divine eternal rewards and abominable infernal punishments given out by a good one in Heaven who commands communities of faithful believers to work all the hours of the day, fight evil, be fruitful and multiply; prohibit sex for occupational, recreational and or homosexual purposes; and object to sexual education that could make these practices safer; can be understood by us today to be the product of this competition to survive rather than any reflection of the will of god. 

Threats made against the life and or afterlife of any body who does not submit to the authority of religious leaders who repeat the lie that myth is truth in defense of their fraud, defamation of character and extortion can be understood by us today; to be the origin of most if not all of the terrorist threats made by religious extremists against secular states that self organize around freedom of thought, belief and religious expression. 

The very ruling class that offers us protection from terror in exchange for gold does nothing to stop the fraud, threat making, extortion, intolerance and violence that is the root cause of much of this terror. 

The lie that myth is truth leads to fraud, threat making, defamation of character, extortion, intolerance, and violence. 

The ruling class favors this state of affairs because intolerance and violence insures the many always accept offers of a promise of protection from terror in exchange for gold made by a mercenary plutocratic predatory few that profit from the sale and manufacture of the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex. 

Belief in lie that myth is truth sells the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex. 

Therefore military protection rackets have traditionally supported and continue to support religious protection rackets.

Mendacity is untruthfulness and the mendacity displayed by the religious wrong is the lie that myth is truth. 

The consequence of loyalty to mendacity is illogical behavior. 

What could be more illogical then leading communities of faithful believers to behave like racist, heterofascist, warmongers motivated to out work, out fight, and out number competition in a race to Armageddon, and to believe that Armageddon is a good thing, because that means that judgment day is nigh and the faithful will soon be elevated to a place of divine eternal bliss some call Heaven? 

This lying is along the same lines as the lying that leads a suicide bomber to self-destruct in hopes of having sex with at least 72 virgins in paradise. 

Though this lying is much worse than the lying that leads a suicide bomber to self-destruct in hopes of having sex with at least 72 virgins in paradise because this lying is leading the many of our global culture down a path to their own destruction: Armageddon. 

A billion people do not get enough food to eat every day. 

About thirty thousand children ages zero to five die of starvation every day. 

Regardless of what is happening in the world around us, these liars lead communities of faithful believers to channel all sexual energy into sex for procreative purposes; be fruitful and multiply; work all the hours of the day from dawn to dusk and fight evil. 

That is fight against anybody that is not doing the same thing; and or not believing the same way. 

While this kind of behavior may have helped states, communities of faithful believers and the ideological traditions they self organized around to survive in the past, in the present I believe this kind of behavior threatens to lead the many of our global culture down a path to their own destruction: Armageddon. 

The flames of excessive multiplication fanned for thousands of years by these aggressive ideological traditions is running up against the limited dimensions of our body consuming biosphere. 

The problem is global warming, deforestation, desertification, pollution, desolation of large areas of land in war, dead zones in the oceans, melting of ancient glacier, a billion people not getting enough food every day and the daily starvation of on average thirty thousand children aged zero to five. 

If those who claim that myth is truth make themselves into liars, then those who claim an ability to know based on the lie that myth is truth perpetrate a fraud. 

If religious leaders who claim an ability to know about the existence and the will of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth perpetrate a fraud, then their threat making against the life and or afterlife of anybody that does not submit to their authority could be interpreted as an effort to extort tithes and offerings from communities of faithful believers in exchange for a life long indoctrination in the lie that myth is truth. 

If religion is based on the lie that myth is truth, then religion degrades the global culture. 

Religion does not have to be based on the lie that myth is truth. 

Religion can be based on the truth that myth is myth. 

If religion is based on the truth that myth is myth, then religion upgrades the global culture provided that religion promotes logical behavior. 

If optimism correlates with happiness and health, then out of an infinite number, diversity and variety of myths made possible by the existence of discovery and the existence of mystery, the logical choice to make when orienting self towards world and explaining world to self is a belief in the one myth that enables us to have the highest esteem of the existence of one totality. 

If optimism correlates with happiness and health, then imagine the harm caused by billions of people focusing the mental energies on a pessimistic myth about the existence of an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth.