Was Jesus' sacrifice really a sacrifice at all?

[Anomalocaris]

Yawn. Because it was not gracious. The character you imagined giving his life either had the theory of sacrafice falsified by his resurrection, in which case he gave nothing, or he really died, in which case what he might have given is completely unexceptional in human history and not worth a foot note to a foot note. His beatitudes, if he actually taught at all, were a series of crudely plagerised platitudes whose originals had been in reasonbly common circulation in more civilized parts since before there was was a david. It appeared inspired only to his yokel apostles and their yokel spiritual descendants. Grace is only apparent to those who would see his face in a piece of burnt toast or in a mildew stain on a crumbling wall. It is a trite and tiresome joke to any but the farcically gullible. Santa clause always gave also. But that does not make him real.