The purpose of god

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Surely Christianity is actually based on a human sacrifice? "the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect" and all that business. Essentially Jesus would be the ultimate scapegoat for human sins. "A live goat over whose head Aaron confessed all the sins of the children of Israel on the Day of Atonement. The goat, symbolically bearing their sins, was then sent into the wilderness.". It would be better if you just applied the golden rule in your life than to be given a poison and then offered the cure. Any decent God who would exist would merely judge people on their merits, and no crime can really be great enough to deserve an eternal never ending punishment.