WHY was Jesus cricified?

[Jenny A]

So you do understand what atonement is, but you reject Christ's sacrificial atonement because it makes no emotional, logical, nor moral sense to you?

Bingo! We have a winner.

---- Seriously though, I view it as a myth. I'm not rejecting forgiveness from anything really because I don't believe there is any god out there to either be injured or do the forgiving. What I am saying is that even assuming the salvation myth were true, it's nutty as a bag of hammers. And the shear nuttiness of it makes the Christian god's existence that much less probable.