A whip would have been more effective too.
Someone is playing with beads out there, oh da horror.
or
Some people out there with whips and buckets of fake blood...
Which would have more immediate impact?
Sigh...
Let’s see if we can go more than skin deep here. (Bzzzzzzp... the Mad Theological Scientist turns on the X-ray spiritual glasses...)
At the root of sin is people with needs, meeting them the wrong way. Yes there is the culpability aspect of having done it at the behest of Satan at the Fall of humanity.
NOW, looking through THOSE eyes. What would you suggest.