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Plus, when it comes to myth there is a problem with the truth/not truth issues. Say n is the number of religions labeled as myth. Pretty much everybody is in one of these two categories:
A) They believe n consists of things that aren't based on fact, regardless of whether they are useful or not.
or
B) They believe n-1 is the number of things in n that aren't based on fact and that 1 is the number of things in n that are based on fact. Being put in such stark mathematical terms makes some uncomfortable.
Which is another way of saying that if there have been 5000 religions in human history then a Christian is only 0.02% less of an atheist than I am in terms of the god systems we don't believe in.
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