Quote:2. If Jesus didn't exist, you've wasted much of your over quarreling about someone who never existed.
There is no quarrel. There is simply no evidence worthy of the name that he did. Further, he is not necessary any more than a historical Odin or Osiris was necessary to the formation of those cults.
People have invented thousands of gods and I really doubt you would insist that there had to be a historical person behind them.
And we don't want to get into special pleading, do we?