It doesn't matter whether or not lawyers are atheists. Couldn't matter less.

Clinton, there is a massive amount of evidence for Jesus having existed. Absolutely massive. The Christian religion itself, and the Christian civilization are the evidence that he existed.

They are not evidence that he was the Son of God, that he did this or that miracle, that he rose from the dead, walked on water, or anything else extraordinary like that, but they ARE evidence that a man known now as Jesus existed, and that he had a big effect on a bunch of other people in his local area for some reason, so big an effect that it soon launched a world religion.

And that is the part that your emotional blinders will not permit you to acknowledge. Your prejudice demands that NONE of it be true. Well, your prejudice is blind.

Buddhism is the same massive cultural evidence that the man Buddha existed. Religions based on the life of a single individual do not start in the first place without that person having physically been there to serve as the inspiration to start them. I've seen how that happens in real life. The person must be there first to inspire others by some extraordinary personal quality he or she has. That's how the whole ball gets rolling. Without the person, it doesn't get rolling at all.

You just don't want to believe there was a man, Jesus, for your own emotional reasons, and you're clinging to that in the face of a mass of cultural evidence bigger than the Atlantic Ocean.

You're the one who believes in something totally unlikely here, not me. I don't believe there was a man, Jesus, because "it gets me through the night". I like Buddhism, Taoism, and Vedantic teachings just as much or more than I like Christianity. I find them all to be good teachings, and I label myself by none of them.

What gets me through the night is the same thing that gets you throught the night. My heart keeps beating, that's all.