Am I real? I don't know. What value of real are we talking, here? Most days I'm pretty sure I exist, if only for Descartian values of exist. I think therefore I am. Well, I think I think, but it's not a proven (or consistent) phenomenon, so I'll take the scientist's route and say that I probably exist, based on experiential data to date...

:-)If my existence is disproven, I'll let you know. Somehow. :-)

About the Jesus+computer issue... you'd be a better authority than I would, but to me, it's an association that does weird things to my mind - deus ex machina being the first association that comes to mind, with godlike AIs close behind. There would probably be an utterly blasphemous story in that, if my Catholic upbringing didn't quail at the thought. (Probably a good thing it does)

My mind works like that, unfortunately :-)