Was Jesus' sacrifice really a sacrifice at all?

[Anomalocaris]

Yes, Skipper.

Because He suffered horribly.

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Here is the link on the Physical Death of Jesus (Includes medical aspects of both scourging and crucifixion):

http://www.cfpeople.org/apologetics/page51a024.html

That would have made him suffer as much as tens of thousands whom the Romans, the Phoenicians, the Carthegenians, the Itruscans had executed in the same manner! Shit! What sacrafice! The rest of humanity must now be indebted to him and him only forever!

In partial payment of this debt, his followers was right to make people who were not impressed with his sacrafice suffer for far longer, and far more cruelly, while thrusting crucifixes in their faces.