To anything like an immaterial infinite abstraction called God, no amount of sensate pain or pleasure would have any meaning whatsoever.
Christ crucified, as such, is of absolutely no consequence to such a God, nor could it ever be, in any way - ever!
It would be like believing that a person who walks into the ocean with a butchers knife and stabs the water is actually causing the water to experience the same pain as a person would if they were being repeatedly stabbed with that same knife. Or it would be like believing that an ant who fasts from eating for a single day is somehow effecting a particular person's view of ants, perhaps even enough to convince that person to stop stepping on them so carelessly when walking around listening to their iPod.
To human beings who are terrified as much of hell as any degree of pain that may accompany their own inevitable death, the torture and gruesome death of Christ crucified has literally all of the meaning in the world.
In this respect, the story of Christ's torture and death - at the hands of religious "believers" no less - is an effective way of saddling people with just enough PTSD to guilt them into handing over not only no less than 10% of their annual income every week, as a mandated by the Bible for salvation, but 100% of their heart and minds as well.
And all in the hope that by doing so for their entire life, their God will not cast them all into hell with all of the haste and indifference with which we would flush ants down the toilet.
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