Human sacrifice? That is what christianity is based on and what god told abraham to do( although he stopped him)
I agree, religion is the basis of much violence and death today. If one presses the point, communism is a religion, with lenin its messiah.
Socialism and statism ditto.
I believe that all totally irrational belief systems and behaviors are used by ruling class posers to subjugate the human will.
At best, they exploit human fear and weakness in the guise of comfort - and at worst, they avocate the divinely sanctioned genocide of "non-believers".
Was it a human sacrifice, or a God sacrifice? Moreover, was it a suicide?
If things are as Jesus claims (a) that he is God, (b) that he came to Earth to die, (c) that he did so of his own will -- then is not the Crucifixion the suicide of God?