What does it mean to feel an obligation to repay a "blood debt"? Certainly we CAN stand on the shoulders of previous generations, but not if we lose our bearings and become oriented towards the nearest cheapest "purchase". Contemporary Christianity has even turned Jesus into a cheap commodity without a price, by wilfully not understanding the blood debt of sacrifice, but someone who knows about PRIMEVAL notions, like Georges Bataille, goes so much deeper.
Another point to consider is that one simply has to MAP the world emotionally in some way. The Christians map it in a particular way, but by believing that only the guilty suffer, which are not the "real" Christians (who are redeemed), they end up succumbing to guilt when the suffer. The blood debt notion gives you a different way to structure the moral universe that enhances the subjectivity of the individual.
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