Does Jesus Mythicism give atheism a bad name?

[Aractus]

It's particularly beneficial when you have to navigate a society filled with christians.......although I'm not sure that the benefits, such as they are, have been shown to be anything other than the trend of non-conformity being disadvantageous.

It has been shown. I think that's where you display your clear lack of critical thinking and willingness to accept and examine evidence on the subject. You'd rather just cling to your ill-informed views, and don't want them challenged by the real world.

Again the very concept itself is easily explainable using the physics model of your choice (chaos, game theory) combined with the phenomena of mythology, the concept of self, and the challenge of fitting oneself into one's society.

There are several high-level studies that exist on the importance of cultural expression for the health and well-being of people; and religion itself is at least part cultural, therefore from that framework we also expect it to have direct influence on the quality of life of participants. And again, none of this is new revelations, it's stuff that's now well known and well established, and completely discredits the old 19th century views of colonialism and assimilation. You just have to look at Israel and the Palestinians to see a clear example of this today - in fact there is no better example of this anywhere else in the world. Despite the extreme oppression the Palestinian people live under in the occupied West Bank, they still prefer to live there and feel that access to their land is critically important to them. This same sentiment is felt by other Indigenous peoples across the world including in Australia, Canada, the USA, in NZ, and everywhere else where there are Indigenous peoples (which is most if not all countries).