Re: Why was Jesus crucified?

He wasn't.  It never happened.  It's just a story.  Think about it:
there are four canon gospels, all originally written in GREEK by
GREEKS.  It was a manufactured religion taking elements from the
Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Hebrew religions and intending to appeal to
all.  When the Hebrews failed to endorse the religion, they were made
into the enemy.  There were also dozens of non-canonical gospels, all
dismissed as fiction by the church.  The truth is they were ALL
fiction.  Yes, the Romans occupied Israel and, yes, the Romans did
cruxify people for breaking Roman law.  (Causing a ruckus in a public
area by overturning the tables of people doing legitimate business
would have qualified.)  Other than that, there's no truth to the
story: the story doesn't even get its geography right.

It was also internally inconsistent: "Mark" and "John" didn't talk
about Jesus' birth and the gospels that did ("Matthew" and "Luke")
tell completely different stories.  They didn't even get the
geneologies to agree!  The entire story was based on stories dating
back to Sumerian times, stories of a god who died and rose from the
dead.  The holiday of Easter was celebrated for thousands of years
before the supposed birth of Christ and is even mentioned in the old
testament.  (The old testament admonished women who would cry over the
death of "their Lord", ie Baal.)

It's really silly how people in the 21st century continue to talk
about Christ as though he were a real person.  Do you believe in
Hercules too?

See http://www.jesusneverexisted.com
for more information.  You'll be
glad you did.

Martin