Pagan Religion and Society - A History of the Sscapegoat Mechanism

The scapegoat mechanism proceeds from a real cataclysmic event where a troubled society murders an innocent victim, gains cathartic release and receives a set of new gods. This real event is dramatized and captured in myth and then translated back into real institutions in the form of prohibitions and rituals. Ritual incests, debaucherous festivals, human sacrifice, however cruel, served a crucial function in pagan society to generate catharsis in order to keep the peace. They are a release valve. Christianity perfectly conforms to this logic that he attributed to false pagan religions. Right? There's civil unrest in jerusalem, christ eventually gets crucified... And obviously there's unjust scape