So a belief = a fact or else a belief doesn't exist. What sort of nonsense is that?

The day that human beings exit from their generations of conditioning to the notions of those who codified 'religions' from the attempts of their ancestors to explain the world around them, will be the best day that has ever occurred for the human race.

Unfortunately, becasuse conditioning is so powerful and because many have a vested inerest in maintaining this particular example of it, we will probably never be free of it.

Indeed, given the self-serving nature and lack of caring of the majority of those who could change things, humanity probably won't be around to see the start of the next millenium, so I guess it's all moot.