Do you realize that until the cross of Christ every single culture on earth was in one of two camps …. Killing to appease their conscience and “gods”…. Both animals , AND CHILDREN…. Some done in the dark, and others outright in public….

Even the prescious chosen people of god, the Jews were slaughtering so many animals unto god that they had to have drains run through the city so that blood could run like rivers and be removed, the priest at times wading through blood as they sacrificed thousands of animals…. Birds, lambs, bulls…..

But this was not unique to them, only the god they were doing it unto was, the other nations as well sacrificed and traded life into their gods…, like I said, both animal and human as well.

If you want to say well some other cultures like Buddhist didn’t (behind closed doors many did because Buddhism was stilled birthed out of a culture steeped in Hinduism and older religions for thousands of years and if you think people don’t have a hard time not dibbling and dabbling in the old ways even if they are a part of a new thing you haven’t read the Old Testament because the Jews kept falling back into pagan practices just like today Christian’s dibble and dabble in pagan practices wether you want to go there or not….. but regardless….
Karma. Karma based cultures lead to performance, religious bondage, and justifying in your mind why someone else is suffering….

Like the first two religious men who passed by the left for dead person the thieves beat up before the Samaritan helped him. Karmic law based religion, of which Judaism is a part of
(Why they asked Jesus, is this man blind because of his own sins or those of his parents…. Hinting at even the idea of reincarnation and sins of previous lives causing you to suffer in this life)…. It leads to a cold way of looking at things and just accepting things the way they are and leaving people to suffer, because it must be their fault. This is how the Hindu caste system was birthed which the lowest class are literally called the untouchables…. Millions… untouchable, the poorest of the poor and lowest of the low, and they deserve to be there because somehow they did it to themselves and it is their lot in life….

These are the ends of the religions in Jesus’s day…:. So if you don’t understand the cross or think it was unnecessary, just because you are so far removed from seeing constant suffering and bloodshed all around you and it is you who are out of touch with what Jesus did…. And so start down playing it as if it was unnecessary because god never required it or didn’t need it or want it…. You just don’t understand why God would them appear and incarnate and manifest to become the ultimate sacrifice himself….. to give a way out of one reality and into another.

Cultural programming is just that, it is an immersion, it is an operating system installled into your brain and hardware as a child and almost impossible to get out of, what you believe you perceive, the brain is programmed to reject opposing information by cognitive dissonance, the RAS system at the stem of the brain, the reptilian brain is real and tries to protect you by rejecting new and opposing information at all cost which is why they killed him…. The serpent killed him…. Through man…. The system.

But to those who could open their hearts, the truth could get in and bypass the brain and cause them to believe and the seed of the woman crushed the head of the serpent in them, and broke the bondage of sin and death. Jesus cha fed the whole world in a day, and that little leaven is still leavening the lump. Jesus is king