Atheists being asked about the existence of Jesus

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A lot of atheists, myself included, believe that Jesus might've never existed, not even as a regular human. I'm pretty sure that it happens in most if not all cases of coming out to unsopportive friends and family, that the outedt person is asked whenever they believe that Jesus existed as a person and was a good man. What should they respond? Should they tell the truth or change the subject?

Nobody would care about Jesus if he was just a man, so that's not what's being argued when people argue a historical Jesus.  Pretending to argue one thing when you're really arguing something else is dishonest.  If Jesus wasn't a miracle man and God, then he's not worth remembering.  Arguing that he was a man is beside the point.  If people have no faith in their arguments that Jesus performed miracles and was resurrected, they shouldn't waste people's time with pointless claims about a historical Jesus.  There were plenty of "historical" people who lived and died.  Nobody cares about merely historical people.

I disagree.  People DO seem to care about 'merely historical people'.  We read what they wrote, we read what was written about them, and we quote them to make points.

Socrates, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Rodin, Twain, Curie, Barton - tons more, none of whom were miracle workers or gods, yet we still discuss them and their contributions to the human condition.

Regarding Jesus, your own Thomas Jefferson didn't for a moment think he was divine, but regarded him as a great moral philosopher.

It seems we can care a great deal about the 'merely historical people'.

Boru