[John Locke]

And I'm still unclear as to how the renewal of animal sacrifices at the temple will be of any benefit to Christians.

Frankly, Yardstick, I fail to see how replacing a temple to one false god with a temple to another false god can benefit anyone. Except of course the temple rats who set up that sacrifice scam in the first place so they could get for free the meat the shepherds had to work for.