Why do atheists even bother about debating Jesus?

[Justtristo]

In some ways he is comparable to the radical Prophet Jeremiah almost killed by the Jews several times,

That's like saying that Porky Pig proves Donald Duck. Do we start assuming these "prophets" are real, too?

If the character of Daniel who is a "minor" Prophet cam be used as a guide, a lot of these Prophets in the Old Testament were initially mythical or semi-mythical characters who later got historicized or were credited with this or that prophecy.

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The Hebrews stole Yahweh from the Canaanites. Yahweh was the storm god and lesser god under the head god El and the lesser gods were Elohim.

Your superstition is merely a spin off of prior polytheism.

The Hebrews were Canaanites, perhaps some of the priestly class came from somewhere else. However in the archeological record shows that culturally the "Hebrews" (and that is being charitable) were identical to the "Canaanites". The only difference being that in Iron age sites in the highlands of Canaan pig bones are not found, however in other sites in Canaan pig bones are plentiful. I suspect that these groups who settled the highlands in the Iron Age were pastoralists who had settled down and become farmers.

If you believe the Old Testament was written in the Persian and Hellenistic periods, the term Canaanite was used by the Priestly "reformers" to try and marginalize those who still followed the Old Hebrew religion, which was essentially the same as the Canaanite religion (with different patron gods depending on the location).