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I agree that my argument fails if the reason we don't have free will is because God programmed us. Because he could also program us to wonder about free will. But not even religious people suggest that so I'm starting with the assumption that it isn't true.

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So your argument is basically that if there is a God, he must have endowed us with free will because we are free to wonder about having free will?

This almost has to be true because most other explanations would be defeated by there being a god of the type Christian theology requires. That god can hardly have created machines that have the illusion of free will as an emergent property because they would not fit his stated purpose.

Without God, the argument is far harder to make. We lack understanding of what the human mind consists of, so there is a handy gap for blatherers to pour their theories into. But there being a gap that you can fill does not make what you fill it with correct.