WHY was Jesus cricified?

[Jenny A]

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.

Hold on there, cowgirl. you don't get to claim your moral sense as equivalent to human moral sense. The large numbers of Christians across time and culture indicates that God's sense of justice is within the bounds of humanity's sense of justice. That it's nonsensical to you doesn't mean that it's nonsensical period.

Nope, I don't. But I don't think any moral system that allow for the killing of one person in lieu of others in sensible. Humans certainly did a number of things in the past that most people would consider immoral now such and the death penalty for pick-pocketing, punishment of sons for the crimes of their fathers. Some Middle Eastern countries still punish women for being raped and sentence men to have their sisters or daughters raped. But most of us have grown beyond that. It appears to me that god has not. ----You'd expect him to be ahead of us rather than behind.