Belief in that ransom? Against what, disobeying an alien god that had no business meddling with affairs on this planet? That thing is the kidnapper, and we are going to pay all our souls as ransom--to reward that thing for ruining our planet and to provide both means and incentive for it to take the whole Orion Empire? And this jesus thing--why do we still need to offer sacrifices after it supposedly died?
Not to mention, this character is nothing more than fiction. What this thing did was to provide the archetype for the perfect slave so we can all be perfect slaves. Its "death" was just as fake as its life--all to provide a very expensive means to save us from action taken by a god that had no business imposing alien rules on our planet. (You pay with your soul.) Unless you really want the reptilian race (which has been pushing this garbage on us, and is about to completely usurp the whole planet) to rule everything in full communism, this ransom (and the whole bible) is worse than worthless.