What pisses me off is it is used to tell people what they can't do with their lives.. They make law and elect officials because of Christianity that end up running peoples lives. The Santa clause myth is just a fun myth but this has serious social and political effects and it is dangerous.
So it better be damn solid. It isn't of course.
Evolution doesn't do this or seek to control people lives.
If one accepts the prevailing scientific understanding of the development of the universe, yet also believes in one of the major religions, then presumably a god sat idle for 13.7 billion years – waiting as the stars, galaxies and planets formed. Then it watched with complete and utter indifference as modern Homo Sapians evolved, struggled and died for a further 150,000 years. Finally, a few thousand years ago, this god suddenly decided to reveal itself to several people in the most primitive, illiterate and remote portions of humanity in a completely unverifiable way – and then simply disappeared.