What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?

[Chad32]

And how do I do that? Unless you're using a vague definition of scapegoating.

What did you eat for dinner yesterday?

Eating isn't scapegoating, even if it means something had to die to do it. Scapegoating is putting your crimes on something or someone else, and acting as if that absolves your wrongdoing. Glossing over the fact that you're harming something innocent in the process, because apparently innocent and pure things make the best sacrifices.

Yes, unless your dies is nothing but fruit, and the non root part of vegetables, you're killing something to eat. But you have to eat to live, so it's not a criminal act. Unless you're just killing for the sake of killing. In which case praying over a goat, or killing a different thing, is not making the problem go away.

I'm tempted to just erase this response and say "An apple and leafy greens because killing is wrong", and see where you take this argument.