text: Cy, the real historical Jesus of Nazareth, if he was typical of his times, would not have considered himself a human sacrifice, because Jews of that time knew that Yahweh abhorred human sacrifice
  
  It could be that Christianity was designed to put a stop to a practice of human sacrifice (then perhaps resurgent in the backwoods of Turkey??) with the idea that a mythical Jesus was the 'one and only sacrifice.' However Christianity carried forward the (non-Jewish) idea that God is demon-like, demanding human sacrifice, and assumes God is unable to transform the world except by violence and blood. Not a fit message for those Africans already predisposed to think in such terms
  
  Put "pagan gods who died" into Google and you get: "The concept of a dying-and-rising god was first proposed in comparative mythology by James Frazer . . . associated the motif with fertility rites surrounding the yearly cycle of vegetation . . .  cited the examples of Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus . . ."