As for Christian fundamentalism, well, I don't think an apocalypse scenario is the purest or even most obvious reading of the Bible. Rather than shunning the study of myth in our public schools, perhaps it would be the left's best choice to embrace it. I've always found that actually reading the Bible helps dispell most of my fears about what I've been told it says. If children were to study the holy scriptures of the West and of other cultures, they might just be able to take a more enlightened approach towards them.