You are mistaken about the metaphysical framework of Christianity

I am well-acquainted with Christian metaphysics. I do not necessarily hold them and I use rdrama as a venting space for exploring Radical Centrist political perspectives and Magical Realist spiritual perspectives.

You are speaking in the "inside" language of Christianity. This makes sense. Words are fundamental units of the supernatural. Every religion that survives eventually evolves a theological memeplex that guards its own definitions, sharpens its own internal logic, and propagates its own confessional creeds.

I am not interested in holding onto an inside language like that. Not only does it prevent you from seeing "your own" religion in its full light (See how much beautiful progress has been made by secular scholars on understanding the lively ideological diversity of various 1st century christianities for example) it also prevents you from properly appreciating other religions. Yes, yes, Jesus probably did do miracles but so did plenty of other people (or beings) in almost every culture throughout all of human history. Isn't that interesting? What is going on there?

By holding too tightly onto one religion you've given up on being able to hold the full /h/truth. You are either stuck denying the vast body of evidence for magic in every culture ever (and in your own direct experience should you choose to look) or you are stuck thinking everything but your religion's miracles are the works of demons or their equivalent.

Instead of being atheist towards most religious experience except one particular branch, why not take a broader perspective?

Once you can accept that magic is simply a part of the real world you can start applying real-world intuition to it (rather than what is strictly theologically required). Religion starts looking suspiciously close to being all too human. Just like how in politics you can look at things from a realpolitik perspective (Russia invaded Crimea for a warm water port, not to defeat Nazis or w/e), just like how in culture you can look at things from a darwinian perspective (the higher IQ of Europeans inside the Hajnal Line is suspiciously correlated to strong bans of second cousin marriage), so too can you look at Religion from a magical realist perspective (the Eucharist has clear parallels to animal and human sacrifice rituals).

Now that that's out of the way:

Jesus wasn't a victim of humanity. He was sacrificed by God (again, similar to Abraham/Isaac) to save humanity from itself.

Semantics. Humans sinned. Humans killed Jesus. Christ's death is directly attributable to us. "Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men" as the Apostle says. Setting a superdeterminist spin on that doesn't change the fact that in Christianity we killed God, even if, yes, he let it happen for substitutionary atonement purposes.

The Liturgy of the Eucharist being an additional sacrifice/fulfillment every Sunday would make no sense from a "magical" standpoint, let alone a theological one.

It makes perfect sense. Number 1: magic works. Number 2: sacrificing stuff makes magic work better. Number 3: the bigger the sacrifice, the better the magic. Number 4: the biggest possible sacrifice and bestest sacrificial magic is the greatest possible thing being sacrificed (possibly) for the least possible thing. Sacrificing God to absolve sin is like paying for a piece of gum with the world economy. Number 5: magic works through the law of belief. Number 6: A culture that believes and re-enacts the greatest possible sacrifice will have all sorts of magical and miraculous happenings.

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