Was Jesus' sacrifice really a sacrifice at all?

[Anomalocaris]

Yes, Skipper.

Because He suffered horribly.

Good for him! At least he did pay a small price, albeit smaller than what thousands of his contempoaries whom the Romans crucified, but who didn't rise up afterwards and say "it was all just a show, and I am still alive!", had paid, for causing major portion of humanity to suffer terribly in the next 2000 years, including many thousands who suffered far more and for far longer then he did, while his followers thrusted graven images of him supposedly in the act of paying the small price before their tortured faces.