What do you mean "keeping us the way we are," An-jel? And not all of mythology is fighting it... It's really only about 1500 years of mythology. Most of the older religions of the world are the ones that produced the new crazy religions. Hinduism and buddhism contain the same elementary ideas as christianity, it has just been intellectually interpreted instead of crazy literalist/supernaturally interpreted. And they're much older than the hebrews and such.
The true religions are not in conflict with science.. They realize the symbols as symbols and intellectually interpret the elementary ideas.
Thick headed literalist mythological ignorance with a global pulpit is a relatively recent player on the scene where mythologies of man are concerned. If anything, science has been busting out of this 1500 year crap for about 400-600 years (renaissance and such). So it's really only been a small window in human history (starting with the rise of the western creed religions such as christianity) that has produced thick headed crazy literalists.
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