You are welcome to your opinion, as I am to mine. Christ didn't know the future. He knew there was a risk, but if Pontius, or the people had decided he was to be let go, would he have insisted on being crucified all the same? I don't think so, he would have felt he still had useful work to be continued. Logically they crucified him to stop what he was doing, they saw him as a subversive influence, probably waking them up to the self imposed nightmare of slavery (The last part I deduce from my own research and experience working on the global energy problem, which is to blame for all the existential problems right now, we still carry on with energy slavery, and its destroying the planet. You can read about it if you are interested, so I guess you wont). As I said, I was brought up Christian. Were you? How about Vietnam, have you lived there, do you even read their news? What references are there that blame Christian Minority rule in South Vietnam? Didn't the US lose, against the Vietnamese? You failed to topple their government. Is the surviving government somehow Christian all the same?