Nonsense, and to prove you wrong I'm going to go out and buy a Christmas Tree and Yule Log in order to better celebrate the birth of Mithras... I mean, Jesus Christ.
Please make sure you always use the proper terms for your imaginary concepts.
Of course the fact that there have been almost 2,000 years of internecine warfare between different Christian sects over what they call things doesn't enter into it...
This was a very Catholic view of faith, down to the "A personal relationship with God is BAD!" and I'm kind of surprised the interviewer didn't question that at all.