... How much time do I feel like wasting on this?

My friends (techies) are mostly militant atheists, including one that surpasses Richard Dawkins at it. For a subject that they have a major investment in, their emotion driven blindness and silliness about religion can astound me. I don't care much one way or another. Religion does little for me and I'm not emotional about it. I obsessively study human genetic and strategic adaptation to figure out how humans can survive and develop long term. So my buddy of over 50 years now (such an ahole...) challenged me (say 35 years ago) to prove that God doesn't exist. I don't care, but he kept hassling me. OK, but I figured since you can't prove a negative, I'd try to prove that God existed or more likely that God could exist and how likely that it did, cuz my tools are science and that's about all science usually proves. I didn't expect to find anything new in that well plowed field. Surprisingly to me, it's very easy to prove that God could exist and was likely to. It would require three things: the (existing) multi-mind nature of the human brain, a model of the human mind (neural nets are developing faster than I ever believed could happen) and a mind machine interface (which Musk claims he has, but give it time). I wrote all this in a terrible book called "Transition to a New Human Ecology", that I need to update finally. It's not that hard to make (or maybe, become) a God and considering human aspirations, we were likely to do it. Anyway, for all his hate of Gods, my buddy is convinced that the Singularity (the creation of a machine God) is inevitable and imminent. For Gods (beings created by design rather than the chance and compromises of evolution and limitations of biology) to exist is simply not that difficult and in the time of the universe, then you would likely expect it to be inevitable. (If you want to think about it, think in terms of a plurality, like a computer network. It will help.)

Enough of that and no more details about that, but one more point. That Jesus guy? I do study human survival and it will depend on which of the two instincts and their strategies we use from our evolutionary history. We have instincts and strategies for the mindless, blind competition most common in nature, referred to as "red in tooth and claw". That won't make us more than animals and will severely restrict our future development. We also have instincts for cooperation and communication that were behaviors associated with the rapid increase in brain size when humans last changed their ecology from trees to walking. We all have both potentials in us and it is worth thinking about, learning to recognize both in yourself and in anyone you meet. Using that cooperative strategy, by choice, humans have the potential to not only become far more than animals, but to achieve our aspirations. How could that strategy be described? It's a moral thing. It is both an intent and a plan.... sort of like the Preamble of the Constitution. How can you put a cooperative moral strategy into words? Those words are "love one another". Don't count anything about Jesus out.