WHY was Jesus cricified?

[Jenny A]

@ no one in particular:

Is it that you don't understand what Christianity teaches about Christ's sacrificial atonement, or is it that you reject what Christianity teaches about Christ's sacrificial atonement?

I can recite several different permutations of the Christian view of how Christ's sacrificial atonement is supposed to work, but they make no emotional, logical or moral sense to me. If there were a god and he operated in such a way, then divine moral sense and human moral sense would have little to do with each other.