I can readily see that you wouldn't think he was "God" or "the Son of God", etc, GIOK, but what on Earth makes you so sure that he never existed?

I mean, I can see how it would probably comfort and please you in some respect if that were indeed so, because then you'd be right (HUZZA! Break out the champagne!) and many, many others would be wrong...but how can you be so sure about it? Your faith that he never existed strikes me as akin to that of a fundamentalist, only the exact opposite way around. ;-)