supposedly Jesus killed himself (or "died for our sins") so we wouldn't have to do so.
but then again, I am not now and have never been a Christian.
BTW, seeing a cross hanging around one of my students' necks, and then seeing a star of David hanging around another's, I began to wonder what atheists wear? not an "OM" symbol like that of another. No, I was already wearing the right symbol: nothing.
-- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles